A blood test that can detect people at early risk of Alzheimer’s is a step closer after scientists implicated a key brain cell in the development of the disease. As well as providing the basis for a test, their work points to a resolution of one of the persistent...
Scientists may have found the true cause of Alzheimer’s disease — and believe the condition can be detected using a simple blood test. Experts have long known the build-up of amyloid in the brain is linked to the disease, but whether the plaques are a...
Department of Psychiatry investigators focused on Alzheimer’s Research—Victor Villemagne, MD (Professor of Psychiatry); Tharick Pascoal, MD, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology); and Thomas Karikari, PhD (Assistant Professor...
Do microglia thwart neurodegenerative disease, or help it along? Do they keep amyloid in check with one hand, while goading tau entanglement with the other? Do they protect neurons early on in disease, but sour into synaptic slayers later? As the field gears up to...
We are delighted to announce that Tharick Pascoal, MD, PhD, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Pascoal received his MD from Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil. He...
