Oncology & Cancer

Origins of glioma brain cancer found to be in the epigenome

While cancers often originate from mutations and other alterations of cells' DNA, researchers in the Bernstein Laboratory at Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have found that gliomas—incurable brain ...

Genetics

Potential new biomarker for Alzheimer's discovered

Alzheimer's is considered a disease of old age, with most people being diagnosed after 65. But the condition actually begins developing, out of sight, many years before any symptoms emerge. Tiny proteins, known as amyloid-beta ...

Neuroscience

How a rare dementia transforms patients into artists

For decades, doctors have noticed a rare burst of visual creativity that occurs among a small number of patients with dementia, echoing the same strange phenomenon among patients who have had a stroke or other brain injury. ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Altered gut bacteria may be early sign of Alzheimer's disease

People in the earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease—after brain changes have begun but before cognitive symptoms become apparent—harbor an assortment of bacteria in their intestines that differs from the gut bacteria ...

Neuroscience

Study investigates how fibromyalgia changes the brain

One of the core symptoms experienced by patients with fibromyalgia is chronic pain. A team from the LWL Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has investigated the brain changes ...

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