Alzheimers

The money will fund a new collaboration among primary care clinics, community-based organizations and educational institutions throughout Riverside County.

The finding marks the final step in an international consortium’s successful effort to develop a unified and reliable approach to assessing signs of Alzheimer’s-related neurodegeneration through structural imaging tests.

Development of a blood test to diagnose the disease would have the advantage of being safe, affordable and easy to administer in large groups or in rural areas.

The research could explain why people with Down syndrome face a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and also have a shorter lifespan.

New UCLA brain research offers hope that lost memories can be restored. The study provides evidence that long-term memory is not stored at synapses, as previously thought.

UCLA researchers have discovered how naturally occurring vault nanoparticles form in cells, which could lead to understanding the root causes of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases.

In a small-scale study, nine of 10 people with the disease displayed subjective or objective improvement in their memories beginning within three to six months.

Dr. X. William Yang and Dr. Daniel Geschwind are among more than 100 investigators who received funding for BRAIN Initiative research.

The diverse group gathered at UCLA to learn about a bill authored by Assemblyman Ken Cooley that would require new football techniques and reduce high-impact contact during practice.

Both nurtritional substances appear to boost the ability of critical immune cells to gobble up amyloid-beta and other waste products in the brain and body, UCLA researchers say.