Here is an interesting approach to fighting Alzheimer's disease: use adjuvants to activate microglia in the nasal cavity. Frenkel et al. publishing the Annals of Neurology show that the administration of an adjuvant called Protollin into the nasal cavity of...
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Posted on June 2, 2008 10:12 AM • 0 Comments •
One of the more common questions I get is why they haven't found any drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease. (But they have, haven't they? What about cholinesterase inhibitors like Aricept? Ed. Those drugs mask the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, but...
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Posted on May 27, 2008 2:43 PM • 0 Comments •
This paper was covered by CNN last week, and I didn't have a chance to talk about it then. It is a case study by Tobinick and Gross in the Journal of Neuroinflammation where a patient with Alzheimer's disease (AD)...
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Posted on January 23, 2008 12:11 PM • 3 Comments •
You look away from a field for two seconds, and they get all crazy on you... I used to do only molecular biology focusing primarily on neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Since I moved to a lab that studies behavior, I...
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Posted on November 26, 2007 11:52 AM • 0 Comments •
We all know that inhaled anesthesia is over the short-term impairs neurological function; that is sort of the point using it for surgery. However, a debate exists about whether inhaled anesthetics have long-term neurological consequences as well. In light of...
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Posted on March 9, 2007 11:30 AM • 2 Comments •