A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...

Paul Duke STEM High School senior Chloe Au was named one of the top teenage scientists in the world by the Society for ...

Having 35 copies of the CAG triplet in the gene that causes Huntington’s disease is not a problem. Inheriting 40 could be a ...

Would HSV-1 wake up and start the process of neurodegeneration?" The link between HSV-1 and Alzheimer's disease was first suggested by co-author Ruth Itzhaki, Visiting Professorial Fellow at Oxford ...

Lecanemab reduces toxic amyloid-β protofibrils, slowing Alzheimer’s disease progression and supporting personalised treatment ...

Preserving levels of brain glucose metabolism can both slow cognitive decline and reduces the risk of conversion to dementia.

Biogen BIIB announced that the FDA and EMA have accepted its regulatory filings seeking label expansion for a higher dose of ...

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects about 7 million ...

Alzheimer's disease is likely caused by stalled protein processing in the brain, according to a new study.

Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

A new study reveals that biotin, a B vitamin, could shield the brain from damage caused by chronic manganese exposure, which ...

In children with NPC, the microglial marker TSPO tracks with neurodegeneration. Siblings with the same mutation can have different symptoms and ages of onset. It never occurred to the family that both ...