Why Anesthesia Is Associated With Cognitive Impairment And Risk Of Alzheimer’s Disease, New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities’ (OMRDD) And New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities (IBR)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2009) — Scientists from The New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities’ (OMRDD) New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities (IBR) report in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease that anesthesia induces phosphorylation of tau. Tau is a key neuronal protein involved in neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and several other neurodegenerative disorders.