Oligomeric assemblies of amyloidogenic peptides from distinct neurodegenerative ... are exemplified by Alzheimer's disease, in which amyloid β-protein oligomers adversely affect synaptic ...

There’s evidence in people and animals that short-term sleep deprivation can change the levels of amyloid-β, a peptide that can accumulate in the aging brain and cause Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists ...

The normal functions of peptides that aggregate in Alzheimer’s ... gets broken down in the brain into smaller pieces such as amyloid-β, the peptide that notoriously goes on to form the plaques ...

Women and individuals with a paternal history of Alzheimer disease have a stronger association between global β-amyloid and tau deposition.