Canadians originally diagnosed with a mystery brain disease had other, well-known neurologic conditions, cross-sectional data suggested. The study assessed 25 of 222 cases listed in public health ...

If deep brain stimulation (DBS) can help people with Parkinson’s disease walk and speak again, could it help people with Alzheimer’s disease, too? It’s a natural question, and one that ...

Hundreds of people in Canada are suspected to have come down with an unknown brain disease. But a new report suggests otherwise. © sfam_photo via Shutterstock ...

“These cell products are safe and show signs of cell survival.” Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative brain condition estimated to affect at least 1 percent of people over age 60 across the worl ...

A cluster of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease cases have been reported out of Hood River County, Ore. The disease is caused by misfolded proteins, or prions, which are also the cause of a disease in deer ...

The woman’s brain was donated to research after her death, and it was analyzed by researchers for signs of Alzheimer’s disease. But while MRI images showed elements in the woman’s brain that ...

a region of the brain devastated by Huntington’s disease. The idea that the adult brain retains the capacity to produce new neurons, called adult neurogenesis, was first described by Goldman and ...

PA), said it has become clear over the years that cardiovascular disease and its risk factors have associations with neurological outcomes, including stroke and dementia, and this new study adds to ...

Scientists have long been racking their brains for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. Turns out that the answer may lie within our own brains. Researchers from ...

Our Compassionate Allowances program provides faster processing of disability claims for people with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and several other neurodegenerative (brain degenerative ...

The team found that although functions such as movement, thinking or behavior remained normal for a long time before the onset of symptoms in Huntington's disease, subtle changes to the brain were ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the ...