Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

If brain health is top of mind for you, you may want to alter your eating habits—and not necessarily what you eat, but when ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a potential breakthrough in the fight ...

Alzheimer's disease is at the center of a revolutionary theory in neuroscience, where the mysteries of the human brain ...

Doug Whitney, a 75-yearold Navy veteran from Washington State, lost 10 members of his family to early-onset Alzheimer's ...

A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease ...

Repeats Raise Risk. The more STR expansions a person carried, the higher their odds for AD (left). People with more repeat expansions tended to have worse tau pathology as per Braak stage (right).

The exact cause of Alzheimer’s disease has long evaded scientists, but experts typically suggest there are likely several ...

The test could help identify one key Alzheimer's biomarker, tau protein, before it shows up in brain. Here's what experts say ...

In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta—a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings ...