Scientists have spotted a new variety of riled-up microglia that drives swelling in the human brain. In the November 18 Neuron, researchers from China led by Haixiao Liu, Shunnan Ge, and Yan Qu at ...

Anatomy explorers have charted a new path myeloid cells use to access the brain. On 3 June in Neuron, scientists led by Lindsay Hohsfield and Kim Green, both at the University of California, Irvine, ...

In memory clinics and in research cohorts, immunoassays for plasma markers can now distinguish people who have Alzheimer’s disease pathology with remarkable accuracy (see Part 7 of this series). How ...

Signaling through the TREM2 receptor fuels an ever-growing list of known microglial functions in the brain, and gene variants that hobble TREM2 signaling beckon Alzheimer’s disease. Ergo, activating ...

As advanced biomedical technologies have allowed scientists to gather growing and increasingly complex datasets, even the most brilliant human minds grappling with the windfall can’t possibly keep up.

As the baby boom generation reaches its hopefully golden years, scientists have been projecting a doubling of dementia cases in the U.S. by 2050, alarming health care agencies, the public, and health ...

Often in medicine, case studies, their lack of statistical power notwithstanding, tell a more dramatic tale than summary data. In the first secondary prevention trial run by the Dominantly Inherited ...

Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s advisory committee gave the nod to donanemab, clearing the way for its marketing approval. All 11 members voted that the antibody was effective for people ...

For 30 years, APOE4 has ranked as the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, with two copies boosting the odds up to 15-fold. Now, scientists argue that people with two APOE4 alleles ...

In Phase 3, HMTM failed to meet co-primary endpoints. Subgroup analysis of an open-label extension suggests benefit in people with MCI. In that subgroup, half as many people transitioned to AD. HMTM ...

Part 2 of 2. Click here for Part 1. What happens in the brain of a person with fatal ARIA? Researchers now have one of their first detailed looks at the pathology of this rare and calamitous condition ...

Earlier this year, a high-profile Science paper caused a stir with its claim that the brain has a fourth, previously unrecognized, meningeal membrane. Dubbed SLYM and containing Prox1+ cells, this ...