Why women may be more susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease
Case Western Reserve University researchers have identified a mechanism in brain tissue that may explain why women are more vulnerable…
Case Western Reserve University researchers have identified a mechanism in brain tissue that may explain why women are more vulnerable…
Adjusting to a new sleep schedule at the start of the school year can lead to disturbed rest, daytime fatigue…
Melatonin use among children and teenagers is on the rise, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports increased…
Prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (‘mad cow disease’), are lethal neurodegenerative infectious diseases that affect humans and other…
Bacterial Populations Can Change with Widely Used MS Treatment An international research consortium led by UC San Francisco scientists has…
Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a…
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that an experimental drug first developed to treat kidney disease prolongs survival and improves…
Inactivation of a particular protein complex that plays a key role in keeping genes switched off leads to nerve cells…
Scientistsat the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS),…
A newly developed agonistic antibody reduced the amyloid pathology in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, signaling its promise as a potential…
Researchers have developed a new method to identify people who are at greater genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease before…
Humans help each other — it’s one of the foundations of civilized society. But a new study by scientists at…
A new MIT study finds that Alzheimer’s disease disrupts at least one form of visual memory by degrading a newly…
Prion diseases are incurable, deadly neurological disorders that can affect both humans and animals–including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in people, Bovine…
Paediatric neurologists and allied health clinicians have developed world-first clinical practice guidelines for children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), the most…
Quality of life is a measure of a person’s level of comfort, health and happiness. For people with multiple sclerosis…
Neurophysiological techniques (e.g., electroencephalography, EEG, transcranial magnetic stimulation, TMS) allow an informed investigation of the brain overexcitability underpinning the typical…
The discovery of how to shift damaged brain cells from a diseased state into a healthy one presents a potential new…
Drugs called interferon betas are common treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS), reducing relapses and slowing motor function decline. Interferon beta,…
Is brain fog a condition limited to humans? “Infectious disease and cognition in wild populations,” a recently published paper in…
Mount Sinai researchers have achieved an unprecedented understanding of the genetic and molecular machinery in human microglia—immune cells that reside…
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is a reduction in the firing of some neurons in the brain, which…
A disorder called hereditary hemochromatosis, caused by a gene mutation, results in the body absorbing too much iron, leading to…
New research presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 19th Annual Meeting shows that thrombectomy, a minimally invasive…
Currently, there are no disease modifying therapies for Parkinson’s disease that can change the progression of the disease. An international…
An estimated 50 million people around the world have Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and perhaps twice that number are unknowingly “incubating”…
People with gut disorders may be at greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). A world-first Edith Cowan University (ECU)…
A team of experts encouraged ongoing investigation of the benefits of exercise training for individuals with multiple sclerosis, citing shortcomings…
You’re fast asleep. But some regions of your brain tasked with hearing sound aren’t taking the night off, according to…
While depression is a common problem for people who have had a stroke, some people may have symptoms of depression…