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Could we reverse memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients? Mice answer yes!

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. A striking characteristic is memory loss. In the brain, nerve cells or neurons make connections, named synapses, to process information. When the synapses are not functional or when the neurons are not well connected anymore, cognitive... click to read more

  • Aude Marzo | Postdoctoral Research fellow at University College London, Department Cellular and Developmental Biology, London, UK
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  • Faye McLeod | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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  • Patricia Salinas | Professor at Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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neurodegenerative disease
neurons
Alzheimer's disease
Views 6321
Reading time 2.5 min
published on Mar 16, 2017
Our internal fight against loneliness

"A guy needs somebody -- to be near him... A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody."
Of Mice & Men, John Steinbeck. As social creatures, all aspects of our daily lives are powerfully shaped by our social experiences. The social bonds that we... click to read more

  • Gillian Matthews | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Simons Center for the Social Brain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA
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behaviour
brain cells
neurons
loneliness
Views 7273
Reading time 4 min
published on Mar 9, 2017