GPS Shoes for Tracking Down Alzheimer’s Patients
The Brain’s Silent Majority: How the Other 90 Percent of Your Brain Works
Neurons are the brain’s rock stars. But without the glial cells — astrocytes, microglia and oligodendrocytes — there would be no show at all.
VERY interesting. One of my favorite articles I’ve read about neuroscience. Definitely worth reading.
In Search Of Misfolded Proteins
“The researchers have already used the technique to detect misfolded protein aggregates in cerebrospinal fluid from Alzheimer’s patients (PLoS One, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0015725). They now plan to test the diagnostic usefulness of the assay in larger groups of patients with Alzheimer’s and other diseases.”
