In a study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Amantha Thathiah, assistant professor of neurobiology at Pitt, applied… Read more
Category: Alzheimer’s disease
Pitt Researchers Awarded Over $40 Million to Study Alzheimer’s Disease
For decades, the field of Alzheimer’s disease research was plagued by a dilemma: Scientists and clinicians knew that accumulation of tau protein – tangles of jumbled protein fibers… Read more
Pitt Research Team Challenges Conventional Thinking on Alzheimer’s
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are working to understand how our genetic material can cause Alzheimer’s disease and challenging conventional thinking about this progressive… Read more
Pitt to Study Brain’s ‘Security Fence’ Breakdown and Alzheimer’s
Neurobiologists at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute were awarded a four-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to… Read more
Don’t Forget to Care for the Caregiver
In October 2015, Scott Harrison’s wife, Barbara Harrison, was diagnosed with stage 1, level 3 uterine cancer. Her cancer was aggressive, leading to a hysterectomy… Read more