INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana University School of Medicine researchers are making new discoveries about the pathological changes in people who have inherited Alzheimer’s disease versus developing the disease ...

Recreating major pathological features of Parkinson's disease in a lab-grown, human mini-brain will help researchers to explore new treatments. This is the first time that Lewy bodies, a hallmark of ...

Targeting multiple proteins at once may be the real key to treating neurodegenerative diseases, according to a recent study. Nearly all major neurodegenerative diseases -- from Alzheimer's to ...

Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary brain disease caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene. HD is a neurodegenerative disease without a cure that, after the onset of the disease at around 40 ...

In patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, pathologic disease-associated prion protein (PrP Sc) has been identified only in the central nervous system and olfactory-nerve tissue.

Nutrition, disease, accidents, physical activity and labor—many of the things that humans do or experience leave traces in ...

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A team from the University of Barcelona has designed and validated in animal models an innovative compound with a pioneering mechanism of action for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Unlike ...

Summary: Women make up nearly two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients, and researcher may have just discovered a massive reason why. A new study found that when the protein alpha-synuclein (typically ...