Scientists at UCSF combined advanced brain-network modeling, genetics, and imaging to reveal how tau protein travels through ...

If you read any research about Alzheimer’s disease, two proteins are going to be your main characters. There’s amyloid-β, which builds up and forms plaques in the brain; and there’s tau, which ...

It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau—a protein known to ...

Summary: A new study questions whether playing youth football leads to harmful protein buildup in the brain. Researchers ...

Researchers have discovered that newborns have high levels of the tau protein, which is elevated in older people with ...

It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau - a protein known ...

Using brain gene expression maps from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, the researchers tested the degree to which Alzheimer’s risk genes explain the patterns of both actual and residual tau. This allowed ...

Pinpointing who will and won’t get Alzheimer’s disease is tricky for doctors, but new research suggests it may soon get ...

A surprising discovery about how brain cells handle sugar could shift how scientists approach dementia and Alzheimer’s ...

A protein long blamed for the brain damage seen in Alzheimer's disease has now been found in astonishingly high levels in ...