A study of the salamander brain has led researchers at Karolinska Institutet to discover a hitherto unknown function of the...
No one knows the cause of most cases of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative disorders. But researchers have found that certain factors are consistently associated with these debilitating conditions. One is DNA damage by reactive oxygen species, highly destructive molecules usually formed as a byproduct of cellular respiration. Another is the presence of excessive levels of copper and iron in regions of the brain associated with the particular disorder.
Structural biologists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are the first to measure the energy difference between protein...
Buck Institute research in mice moves into preclinical stage; working toward human trials Lithium profoundly prevents the aggregation of toxic...
Researchers discover common cause of all forms of ALS. The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists and prevented development of effective therapies. Scientists weren’t even sure all its forms actually converged into a common disease process.
A research group from the University of Leeds has shown that infection by the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in...
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a simple test, using dopamine-deficient worms, for identifying drugs that...
Hippocampal Atrophy Seen with Early Cognitive Decline in Parkinson’s Disease Atrophy in the hippocampus, the region of the brain known...
Early changes to the inferior frontal junction observed in early dementias A key misplaced yet again? Unable to recall a...
Welders who are exposed to manganese from welding fumes, risk developing increased clumsiness – and the result may remain decades...
Treatments for Parkinson’s disease, estimated to affect 1 million Americans, have yet to prove effective in slowing the progression of...
Findings suggest new view of “mad cow” and other neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research...
