A team of scientists including researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied a catalyst […]
Hope for Alzheimer’s treatment as older patients’ memories return
London: The memory of older people has been returned to the state of someone in their 20s for the first […]
Vitamin B12 is identified as the inhibitor of a key enzyme in hereditary Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s is the most common, chronic neurodegenerative movement disorder affecting 1% of the global population over seventy years of age. […]
Brain wave stimulation may improve Alzheimer’s symptoms
By exposing mice to a unique combination of light and sound, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can improve cognitive […]
The involvement of the gut in Parkinson’s disease: hype or hope?
There is growing evidence that at least in some patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), the disease may begin in the […]
A new culprit of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease
It has long been known that patients with Alzheimer’s disease have abnormalities in the vast network of blood vessels in […]
New compound shows promise in treatment of Alzheimer’s
Yale researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s and […]
Cannabis-based drug in combination with other anti-spasticity: Drugs may help to relieve symptoms of motor neuron disease
Oral spray containing two compounds derived from the cannabis plant reduced spasticity compared with placebo in patients already taking anti-spasticity […]
Researchers use MRI to predict Alzheimer’s disease
MRI brain scans perform better than common clinical tests at predicting which people will go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease, […]
Could lab-grown human minibrains help treat Alzheimer's and epilepsy?
This year, as the worlds of science, technology and literature marked the bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in some laboratories human […]