Dementia

How Astrocytic TDP-43 protein accumulation and dysregulation accelerate neurodegeneration

When most people think of neurodegenerative disease, they probably think of the loss of neurons and corresponding loss of memories or cognitive function. This expected relationship between neurons and neurodegenerative disease makes sense. After all, neurons are the cells that send information throughout the

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Towards the Effective and Safe Treatment of Psychosis and Alzheimer’s Disease

In the U.S. alone, there are 6.2 million people living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most common form of dementia [1]. While this unfortunate reality is generally recognized by the public, a lesser-known fact is that approximately 50% of those suffering

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Probiotics reveal a surprising link between gut microbiota and Alzheimer’s Disease progression

If your doctor told you that eating yogurt every day could reduce your chances of getting Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), how would you react? If you were like me, you’d probably switch to a new doctor.

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The Brain is Alive with the Sound of Music

While everyone has their own music preferences, there are some songs that almost everyone knows the words to. Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA” is basically the Fourth of July national anthem, and we only need to hear the first few bell chimes to identify Mariah Carey

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CADASIL: How a Rare Disease Could Help Cure Dementia

In 1976, French neuroscientist Marie-Germaine Bousser recruited hundreds of Parisians for an experiment to determine whether aspirin could prevent subsequent strokes in patients who had already had strokes...

The Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal

A collection of 5 posts

How Astrocytic TDP-43 protein accumulation and dysregulation accelerate neurodegeneration

Towards the Effective and Safe Treatment of Psychosis and Alzheimer’s Disease

Probiotics reveal a surprising link between gut microbiota and Alzheimer’s Disease progression

The Brain is Alive with the Sound of Music

CADASIL: How a Rare Disease Could Help Cure Dementia