Inside Alzheimer's neurons, tau may set off a genetic chain reaction that ends in cell death

MedicalXpress | ماي 30, 2026

Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive decline in mental functions and memory loss. Along with frontotemporal dementia and some other neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease has been associated with an accumulation inside neurons of abnormal clumps of a protein called "tau."