Solving the Alzheimer’s disease puzzle: One piece at a time
Researchers from Drexel University have uncovered a novel regulatory mechanism in the brain that is essential for making the right…
Researchers from Drexel University have uncovered a novel regulatory mechanism in the brain that is essential for making the right…
A new study by Columbia University researchers suggests that cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins have the potential to reduce heart disease in people…
The results of the clinical trial of a new wrist device designed to help control the symptoms of Tourette syndrome…
Sometimes the best things in life come by chance, when we happen to be in the right place at the…
Reducing the methylation of a key messenger RNA can promote migration of macrophages into the brain and ameliorate symptoms of…
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who follow a Mediterranean diet may have a lower risk for problems with memory and…
Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music. Reports about…
Taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia, according to a new, large-scale study. Researchers at the University of…
Patients with Parkinson’s disease achieved a significant improvement in their tremors, mobility, and other physical symptoms after having a minimally…
February 21, 2023—Of all the known genetic risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the strongest is a gene for the…
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues have found that a toxic protein made by the body…
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60% to 80% of dementia cases, according to the…
Scientists are not yet clear on how the tau protein changes from a benign protein essential for normal function in…
UVA Health neuroscientists have discovered a potential way to disrupt the chronic inflammation responsible for multiple sclerosis. UVA’s new study identifies…
An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose production in the brain, may hold clues to the development and possible…
As the Alzheimer’s disease scientific community, patients, and families seek to understand the results of clinical trials of new Alzheimer’s…
More than 55 million people worldwide were living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2020, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International. This figure…
New research has found some antidepressants may be effective in treating certain chronic pain conditions, but others lack convincing evidence…
A new study shows that sleep medications increase the risk of dementia in whites. But the type and quantity of…
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has established a blood-based test…
The rate of parental stress is greater among parents who have sleep disorders themselves, or have children with sleep disorders,…
The diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease has shaken many lives. More than 10 million people worldwide are living with it. There is no…
In patients with Huntington’s disease, neurons in a part of the brain called the striatum are among the hardest-hit. Degeneration…
Two major health conditions appear to share a connection. Multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease which eats away at the body’s…
A leading Swansea University scientist has developed a new ‘smart patch’ that can detect proinflammatory biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases (such…
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) could help prevent Alzheimer’s Dementia among women at risk of developing the disease – according to…
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that older adults with…
A rapidly growing body of evidence shows the importance and effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with traumatic brain injury…
People sleep less in mid-adulthood than they do in early and late adulthood, finds a new study led by UCL,…
Middle-aged smokers are far more likely to report having memory loss and confusion than nonsmokers, and the likelihood of cognitive…