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No doubt, the evidence is piling up: misfolded protein pathologies can spread throughout the nervous system in a prion-like fashion. Diseases and proteins concerned include Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobe dementia (Tau), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SOD1) and Parkinson’s disease (α-synuclein).… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi This month a tweet provided me with a very interesting article (and discussion) from Ed Yong, an award-winning British science writer, on the reliability of results in neuroscience papers. He took his inspiration from a paper published… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi This month a tweet directed me to a very interesting report on Epigenetics by Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, from the Fishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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