A study of cells from 84 brains finds that Alzheimer’s has two distinct phases, and that one type of neuron is especially vulnerable.
A study of cells from 84 cadaver brains suggests that Alzheimer’s has two distinct phases, and that one type of neuron is especially vulnerable., a senior investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, “then a more exponential phase where suddenly things get really bad.”begin to die off during the early phase of Alzheimer’s, Lein and a team of nearly 100 other scientists
The results also show how scientists’ understanding of Alzheimer’s is being changed by new tools and techniques that can reveal detailed information about millions of individual brain cells. The team focused on an area called the middle temporal gyrus, which is involved in language, memory, and vision.
Lein says artificial intelligence and new imaging and genetic techniques allowed the team to search for other changes that previously would have gone undetected.
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