Focus on tau protein may offer a path to Alzheimer’s treatment
In the past decade, several promising drugs that target beta-amyloid, a protein that causes the sticky brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s, have failed to stop the disease. At this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting, there are more than 100 papers on tau, which is responsible for the tangles that form in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s. The Alzheimer’s Association has funded numerous studies to help researchers better understand what role tau plays in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and how we might target tau abnormalities with treatments and for early detection.
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