How the demons of dementia possess and damage brain cells

Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 09:51 in Health & Medicine

A study from EPFL's (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Laboratory of Neuroenergetics and Cellular Dynamics in Lausanne Switzerland, published today in the Journal of Neuroscience, may lead to new forms of treatment following a better understanding of how Amyloid-Beta found in cerebral plaques, typically present in the brain of Alzheimer's patients, may lead to neurodegeneration. Researchers in Lausanne have studied how the functions of certain cells called astrocytes - which normally protect, repair, and transfer energy to neurones - are impaired when 'possessed' by aggregated Amyloid-Beta...

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