Daily physical exercise may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, even in people over the age of 80, according to...
Computer Modeling Supports Theory That Many Dementias Spread Like Prion Diseases. A new technique for analyzing brain images offers the...
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System have shown that elevated pulse...
Yale researchers show in detail how three genes within human embryonic stem cells regulate development, a finding that increases understanding...
Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball card, but University of Massachusetts Amherst doctoral student Elih...
Repeated stress triggers the production and accumulation of insoluble tau protein aggregates inside the brain cells of mice, say researchers...
New research in humans published today reveals that the so-called FKBP52 protein may prevent the Tau protein from turning pathogenic....
Antibodies that block the process of synapse disintegration in Alzheimer’s disease have been identified, raising hopes for a treatment to...
A team of academic researchers has identified the intracellular mechanisms regulated by vitamin D3 that may help the body clear...
MicroRNAs key to memory and learning process. Studying tiny bits of genetic material that control protein formation in the brain,...
Molecular ‘tweezers’ break up toxic aggregations of proteins. Millions of people suffer from Parkinson’s disease, a disorder of the nervous...
A major downside of the medical use of marijuana is the drug’s ill effects on working memory, the ability to...
