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Little is known about the role of the brain’s immune system in Alzheimer’s disease. But researchers have now found an early immune response in individuals with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s: their brains showed abnormal immune reactions as early as…

People with Parkinson’s disease and cognitive impairment have disruptions in their brain networks that can be seen on a type of MRI, according to a study appearing online in the journal Radiology. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive disorder of…

People who live close to high-traffic roadways face a higher risk of developing dementia than those who live further away, new research has found. The study, published in The Lancet, found that people who lived within 50 metres of high-traffic…

A new study suggests that a key to Parkinson’s disease may lie in the mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cell. The results were published in Nature Communications. Mitochondria, it seems, are not able to adapt to the effects of aging…

Patients who had a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) with dementia (PDD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and had higher levels of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology in their donated post-mortem brains also had more severe symptoms of these Lewy…

Researchers have identified a naturally occurring molecule that has the potential for preserving sites of communication between nerves and muscles in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and over the course of aging — as well as a molecule that interferes with…

Researchers have discovered that mice with Huntington’s disease (HD) suffer defects in muscle maturation that may explain some symptoms of the disorder. The study, which was published in The Journal of General Physiology, suggests that HD is a disease of…