Social engagement could have a major impact on the development of dementia, potentially delaying onset of the cognitive ...

A study by the (UPV/EHU) demonstrates that the drug WIN55,212-2 protects the brain and reverses early cognitive damage caused ...

Using a rodent stress model, researchers at the Laboratory of Thalamus Research, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine ...

A study led by scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick has shown that specialized cells involved in how the body ...

Italian researchers have discovered a new gene that causes Alzheimer's Disease, according to a new study out Sunday. The ...

That way we saw that, after treatment, the activity of the cannabinoid system had increased; and also that there was an increase in the activity of the patients' cholinergic neuronal receptors that ...

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) may develop in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Aphasia is an impairment of speech and language comprehension which also affects the ability to read and write.

In a recent study published in the journal Neuron, researchers at the University ... how these processes influence the progression of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, Huntington’s disease ...

It can help identify people at risk of Alzheimer's disease and screen for conditions like Parkinson's disease, brain tumors, substance abuse, and head trauma. Introduced in 2005, the MoCA test is an ...

Margaret, 63, says, 'Trevor has mixed dementia – Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia – but he had never gone missing before, so I was naïve enough to think he would be fine. 'I only went out for an hour ...

This increased neural activity, observed in a brain region called the ... In the brain, hormones can alter the excitability of neurons, thereby affecting functions like mood, motivation, or ...

The researchers looked at the effects of stress on microglia cells. (Flury et al., Neuron, 2024) "We set out to answer what are the harmful microglia in Alzheimer's disease and how can we ...