Tangles creep through a person’s brain as Alzheimer’s disease progresses; alas, researchers disagree about what drives the spread of this pathology. In the May 26 Nature Communications, a ...
In one of the first studies of its kind, UCLA researchers used a unique brain scan to assess the levels of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles — the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease — in ...
As Alzheimer’s disease pathology advances, tangles propagate throughout the brain in a fairly stereotypical pattern. Yet tau PET scans of people at the same disease stage are not identical. Could ...