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Dr. W. Jake Streit & colleagues publish in July 12, 2016 Glia

Inhomogeneous distribution of Iba-1 characterizes microglial pathology in Alzheimer’s diseaseJasmin Tischer, Martin Krueger, Wolf Mueller, Ori Staszewski, Marco Prinz, Wolfgang J. Streit and Ingo Bechmann.  Version of Record online: 12 JUL 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/glia.23024 Abstract: Microglial dystrophy has recently been described as a morphological phenotype of…

Dr. Todd Golde publishes in July 15, 2016 Nature Reviews. Neurology

Golde TE. Alzheimer disease: Host immune defence, amyloid-[beta] peptide and Alzheimer disease : Nature Reviews Neurology : Nature Publishing Group A recent study demonstrates that amyloid-β (Aβ) can function as an antimicrobial peptide, and additional data show that bacteria and yeast can seed Aβ deposition…

Ocean waves and brain waves

Traditional neuroscience has focused on correlations between oscillations of the brain’s neurons — rhythmic fluctuations in activity patterns — and behavior.