Primary age-related tauopathy

Primary age-related tauopathy (PART) is a new neuropathological designation used to describe the neurofibrillary tangles that are commonly observed in the brains of elderly individuals that can occur independently of the amyloid plaques of Alzheimer's disease.[1] Patients with severe PART typically exhibit mild cognitive impairment or an amnestic dementia of the Alzheimer's-type. At autopsy, they display Alzheimer's-type NFT, predominantly in the medial temporal lobe, but no amyloid-beta peptide accumulation in plaques.

References

  1. ↑ "Researchers identify new neurological disorder linked to Alzheimer's" Medical news today, November 14, 2014
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