A study led by the University of Glasgow has revealed differences in the brains of pediatric and adult patients that might explain the sometimes catastrophic outcomes seen in children following a ...

Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases associated with aggregated tau proteins. These diseases typically progress over the years, and their symptoms are linked to neurological ...

A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) has discovered that early and sustained ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cell transformation begins with slow degeneration and progresses rapidly. The data confirmed results from ...

Recent analysis of human brain tissue suggests that a small and often overlooked region deep within the brain may play a central role in bipolar disorder. Researchers found that neurons in the ...

To treat neurodegenerative disease, researchers face the challenge of getting drugs across the blood-brain barrier. But what if targeting a peripheral enzyme could do the job? In the June 26 Neuron ...

A University of New Mexico scientist is revealing what might be one of the most overlooked causes of dementia — damage in the brain’s tiny blood vessels. Dr. Elaine Bearer has created a new way to ...

For 10 years, a woman with Down syndrome defied what many scientists believed to be an inevitability. Despite carrying the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease—amyloid beta plaques and ...

This test can aid in determining the type of prion disease. Different types of prion disease have different distribution patterns of the abnormal protein. Please note: cortical brain biopsies do not ...

A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) has discovered that early and sustained cognitive stimulation can ...