Study gives new clues on how Alzheimer's spreads

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Alzheimer's disease appears to spread in a predictable pattern, infecting brain cell after brain cell as the disease spreads along linked circuits known as synapses, according to a new study

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Study gives new clues on how Alzheimer's spreads

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Alzheimer's disease appears to spread in a predictable pattern, infecting brain cell after brain cell as the disease spreads along linked circuits known as synapses, according to a new study

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Alzheimer’s Disease Protein Spreads Through Neurons in Mice

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Alzheimer’s appears to spread through the brain like poison in a river, according to a study that's the first to track the destruction caused by an abnormal protein implicated in the disease.

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Obama's War on Alzheimer's: Will We Be Able to Treat the Disease by 2025?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Obama's War on Alzheimer's: Will We Be Able to Treat the Disease by 2025?

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Researchers replicate Alzheimer's disease neurons with stem cells

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Scientists have successfully replicated purified Alzheimer’s disease neurons with stem cells for the first time in a landmark, multi-year study – an achievement that may lead to critical new understanding of the disease, the scientists said

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