Month: July 2022

Tauopathy and Epilepsy Comorbidities and Underlying Mechanisms

Imagine your brain is like a bustling city, and tau is the dedicated construction worker building and maintaining the roads (microtubules) that keep everything running smoothly. But sometimes, tau goes rogue and starts causing chaos instead – leading to neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies. And it turns out, these tauopathies have a connection to seizures […]

Published on July 18, 2022

The Fate of Tau Aggregates Between Clearance and Transmission

Just like a contagion spreading from person to person, mis-folded tau proteins in the brain can propagate and worsen neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Unlike amyloid plaques that appear throughout the brain at the same time, tau pathology starts in one specific region and then spreads to connected areas, contributing to disease progression. To stop […]

Published on July 18, 2022

CDC Urges Vigilance as Dangerous Baby Virus Spreads

Like a sneaky virus infiltrating a daycare, an alarming virus that endangers infants is making its way through the United States. The CDC wants parents and pediatricians to keep their eyes peeled for symptoms of parechovirus, which has already claimed the life of one baby and has been detected in multiple states. This menacing virus […]

Published on July 18, 2022