neurology
3 stories tagged "neurology"
Brain & Aging
Anti-Tau Alzheimer's Drugs Keep Hitting Their Target and Missing the Disease
Tau is the new headliner at the Alzheimer's conference, but the anti-tau antibodies keep proving they bind the protein while doing nothing for patients. The clearest win so far is a blood test.
Brain & AgingFor Decades They Treated This Stroke Like a Clog. The Arteries Were Actually Too Wide.
People with widened brain arteries were four times more likely to have had a lacunar stroke, the type doctors have treated for decades as if it were a clog.
Brain & AgingTwelve Genes, One Overlooked Neuron, and the Rett Brain That Was Already Off Course
A Baylor team's single-cell map of female Rett mice finds 12 dysregulated genes and a previously unsuspected vulnerable interneuron, weeks before any symptom appears.