One type of brain cell may invite Alzheimer's

Monday, December 17, 2018 - 13:10 in Health & Medicine

Researchers found that excitatory neurons -- those that are more likely to trigger an action (as opposed to inhibitory neurons, which are less likely to prompt neural activity) -- are more vulnerable to accumulations of abnormal tau protein, which is increasingly being implicated in Alzheimer's disease.

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