Study of Retired NFL and NHL Players Doesn’t Find Evidence of Early Onset Dementia
A new study, which involved a small sample of former professional athletes, found no evidence of early onset dementia.... Read More...
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Important New Piece in Huntington’s Disease Puzzle Identified
Researchers have identified a reduced exchange of glutamine between astrocytes and neurons in a new Huntington's disease study.... Read More...
Can A Single Exercise Session Benefit Your Brain?
Summary: Researchers document not only the behavioral and cognitive effects of a single exercise session, but also the neurochemical and neurophysiological chan... Read More...
Hunt for Huntington’s Cause Yields Clues
Researchers reveal how a repeating nucleotide sequence in the gene for a mutant protein may trigger Huntington's disease.... Read More...
Scientists Build a Better Cancer Drug to Pass Through Blood-Brain Barrier
By altering DON, an anti-cancer drug cultivated from bacteria originally found in Peruvian soil over 70 years ago, scientists believe they have made a safer and more tolerable form of the drug.... Read More...
New Approaches for Parkinson’s Treatment?
Researchers are tracking the cause of premature neuron aging in Parkinson's patients with a defective DJ-1 gene.... Read More...
Shedding Light on Protein Related Diseases
Researchers report some proteins turn into liquid droplets on their way to becoming the toxic solids implicated in some neurodegenerative disorders.... Read More...
Novel Regulator Inhibits Toxic Protein Aggregates in Huntington’s Disease
Researchers discover a novel factor which suppresses misfolding and aggregation of the huntingtin protein.... Read More...
Disease in a Dish Approach Could Aid Huntington’s Disease Discovery
Researchers use iPSCs to create a disease in a dish model of Huntington's disease in transgenic nonhuman primates.... Read More...
Drug Shows Early Promise in Treating Liver Failure-Related Seizures
A new study reports a potential new treatment for seizures which often occur in children with genetic metabolic disorders and people with liver failure. ... Read More...
New Mechanism for Human Gene Expression Discovered
Researchers find a single gene which encodes two separate proteins from the same sequence of messenger RNA. The finding could provide new strategies for treating SCA6.... Read More...
New Findings on Protein Misfolding
Researchers identified 21 proteins that specifically bind to a protein called ataxin-1. Twelve of these proteins enhance the misfolding of ataxin-1 and thus promote the formation of harmful protein aggregate structures, whereas nine of them prevent the misfolding.... Read More...