A new biomarker test can detect early-stage tau protein clumping up to a decade before it appears on brain scans, improving ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test developed at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine can detect small amounts of the ...

Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously difficult to detect, especially in its ...

Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains both a physician guide and a downloadable/printable patient ...

There exists no ‘amyloid cabal’” in Alzheimer’s research, neurologist Dennis Selkoe writes in response to Charles Piller’s ...

A growing body of research suggests that infections, including those caused by common bacteria in gum disease, could ...

Phosphorylated tau 217 better detected Alzheimer’s disease pathology across a range of neurodegenerative syndromes compared ...

“This is a wonderful piece of work,” said Henrik Zetterberg at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was not involved in ...

Researchers indicate that the Lumipulse p-tau217 assay may reduce over 50% of lumbar punctures performed for diagnosing ...