BIOENGINEER

AI Maps the Hidden Diversity of Amyloid Plaques Across the Alzheimer’s Brain

Using machine learning on tissue from 84 Alzheimer's disease cases, researchers have mapped six distinct amyloid-beta plaque ...
newswise

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, seizures, and epilepsy: Dr. Brin Freund

Listen below or download the episode. Find Sharp Waves episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, and Stitcher. Sixty percent of patients with dementia on ...
ALZFORUM

On the Hunt for Fluid Biomarkers of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

With amyloid immunotherapy in clinical use, scientists need to find better ways to identify the patients most at risk of developing ARIA (see part 16 of this series). One of the biggest danger signs, ...
Healio

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy linked to higher risk for subdural hemorrhage

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cerebral amyloid angiopathy was associated with a higher risk for isolated nontraumatic subdural hemorrhage in ...
MedPage Today

Brain Disease Decades Later? Study Links Childhood Surgery to Amyloid Build-Up

Evidence of iatrogenic beta-amyloid transmission was identified in two patients who developed early-onset cerebral amyloid angiopathy decades after undergoing pediatric cardiac surgery. The findings ...
GEN

University of Rhode Island Wins Grant to Study Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Prevalent in Alzheimer’s Patients

A professor of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences at the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) College of Pharmacy received a $1.5 million grant to research cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a ...
Nature

Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy in Neurodegenerative Disease

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) denotes the deposition of amyloid-β peptides within the walls of leptomeningeal and cortical blood vessels. It frequently co-occurs with Alzheimer’s disease and other ...
Medical Xpress

News on cerebral amyloid angiopathy

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a condition where protein (called amyloid) builds up in the brain, making blood vessels weak. People with CAA are four times more likely to develop dementia within ...
News Medical

URI professor wins $1.5M grant to study cerebral amyloid angiopathy

A $1.5M grant has been awarded to William Van Nostrand, co-executive director of the University of Rhode Island's George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and professor of pharmaceutical and ...
The Economist

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a rare brain illness, may be caused by prions

A PAPER PUBLISHED in this month’s Annals of Neurology, by Gargi Banerjee and David Werring of University College, London, adds to evidence that prion diseases are more widespread and varied than had ...
Business Wire

Alnylam and Regeneron Report Positive Interim Phase 1 Clinical Data on ALN-APP, an Investigational RNAi Therapeutic for Alzheimer’s Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & TARRYTOWN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) announced today positive interim results from the ...
Medical Xpress

Disease or Syndrome: Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

As new Alzheimer's drugs move from clinical trials into everyday care, families are asking whether these treatments are safe, how long patients can stay on them and whether they truly slow the disease ...