(Medical Xpress) -- Chronic pain, by definition, is difficult to manage, but a new study by UCSF scientists shows how a cell therapy might one day be used not only to quell some common types of persistent and difficult-to-treat ...
May 23, 2012
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One of the most distinctive signs of the development of Alzheimer's disease is a change in the behavior of a protein that neuroscientists call tau. In normal brains, tau is present in individual units essential to neuron ...
Feb 2, 2012
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In a development that sheds new light on the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a team of Whitehead Institute scientists has identified connections between genetic risk factors for the disease and the effects of a peptide ...
Oct 27, 2011
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Parkinson's disease, the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's disease, affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S. and an estimated 10 million individuals worldwide. Each year, close to 90,000 ...
Feb 23, 2024
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease defined by hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) protein accumulating in a particular pattern in specific regions of the brain. Currently, CTE can only be diagnosed ...
Feb 6, 2024
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People with personality traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion and positive affect are less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative affect, according to a new analysis by researchers ...
Nov 29, 2023
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As human lifespans increase, new societal challenges arise. In a "superaging society," in which young people are few and older people are many, caring for the older adult population adequately with limited resources is a ...
Jun 16, 2022
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Research shows that soldiers exposed to shockwaves from military explosives are at a higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease—even those that don't have traumatic brain injuries from those blasts. A new Army-funded ...
Feb 25, 2021
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Repetitive head impacts are associated with development of the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Some individuals diagnosed with CTE after death were reported to suffer from sleep dysfunction, ...
Sep 17, 2020
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Bristol scientists have discovered a novel pathology that occurs in several human neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease.
Jun 30, 2020
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