1 Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, UK Dementia Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
2 UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK.
3 Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK.
4 Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.
5 Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden.
This scientific commentary refers to ‘CSF tau microtubule binding region identifies tau tangle and clinical stages of Alzheimer’s disease’, by Horie et al. (doi:10.1093/brain/awaa373).