August 30, 2024 by Rajalaxmi Natarajan, Baylor College of Medicine Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-024-01740-1 A study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital, reveals that the protein Tau—a key player implicated in several neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer’s disease—also...
by Alice McCarthy, Children’s Hospital Boston PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Research into Alzheimer’s disease has long focused on understanding the role of two key proteins, beta amyloid and the tau protein. Found in tangles in patients’ brain tissue, a pathological form of the tau protein contributes to propagating the disease in the...
Tau PET brain imaging could launch precision medicine era for Alzheimer’s disease UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO Brain imaging of pathological tau-protein “tangles” reliably predicts the location of future brain atrophy in Alzheimer’s patients a year or more in advance, according to a new study by scientists at the UC San Francisco Memory and...
