Stress may increase risk for Alzheimer's disease
Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that the increased release of stress hormones in rats leads to generation of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein in the brain and ultimately, memory loss.