κWhen microglia wind up with a belly full of lipid droplets, it’s a sign that the cells are rallying, perhaps in vain, to a neurodegenerative threat. But according to a study published July 10 in Cell ...

Machine learning software sharpens the diagnostic utility of FDG PET scans. StateViewer told apart nine neurodegenerative diseases with 93 percent accuracy. Using the program made radiologists three ...

p-Tau217 might be the Benjamin Button of biomarkers—starting off old and ending up young. Seriously, p-tau217 is unusually high at birth before waning with age, scientists report. In a cross-sectional ...

Two studies analyzed tau-PET scans from thousands of participants in dozens of cohorts. Tangle prevalence increased with age among cognitively normal people, but decreased among those with dementia.

Is Alzheimer’s disease different in people with Down’s? Two recent proteomics studies say yes. In the July 1 Nature Communications, scientists led by Erik Johnson at Emory University School of ...