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June 3, 2025

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Epilepsy Is More Common in Patients With Frontotemporal Dementia Than Expected

June 3, 2025 — According to a recent study, in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), epileptic seizures are significantly more common than previously known. The discovery deepens understanding of the ...

Immune System Discovery Reveals Potential Solution to Alzheimer's

June 2, 2025 — A new way of thinking about Alzheimer's disease has yielded a discovery that could be the key to stopping the cognitive decline seen in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS and ...

Common Gene Variant Doubles Dementia Risk for Men

May 30, 2025 — New research has found that men who carry a common genetic variant are twice as likely to develop dementia in their lifetime compared to ...

Scientists Test Real-Time View of Brain's Waste Removal

May 28, 2025 — A new device that monitors the waste-removal system of the brain may help to prevent Alzheimer s and other neurological diseases, according to a new study. In the study, participants were asleep when they wore the device: a head cap embedded with ...

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Different Versions of APOE Protein Have Varying Effect on Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease

May 27, 2025 — A new study suggests how APOE2 is protective while APOE4 increases disease risk by regulating the brain's immune ...

Potential New Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease, Other Neurodegenerative Conditions

May 22, 2025 — Worldwide, more than 55 million people suffer from dementia caused by Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other conditions that destroy cells in the brain ...

Study Reveals Impacts of Alzheimer's Disease on the Whole Body

May 16, 2025 — While Alzheimer's disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, ...

How Do Middle-Aged Folks Get Dementia? It Could Be These Proteins

May 16, 2025 — Dementia usually affects older people, so when it occurs in middle age, it can be hard to recognize. The most common form is frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which is often mistaken for depression, ...

Focused Ultrasound Halts Growth of Debilitating Brain Lesions

May 15, 2025 — A new, incision-free technique developed at UVA Health to treat debilitating brain lesions called cerebral cavernous malformations, or cavernomas, has shown great promise in early testing, halting ...

Too Much Sleep Can Hurt Cognitive Performance, Especially for Those With Depression

May 14, 2025 — Sleeping nine hours or more per night is associated with worse cognitive performance, and it is even more the case for those with ...

Sugar-Coated Nanotherapy Dramatically Improves Neuron Survival in Alzheimer's Model

May 14, 2025 — In many neurodegenerative diseases, proteins misfold and clump together in brain tissue. Scientists developed a new therapy made of peptides and a ...

Seek Medical Advice Before Attempting Water-Only Fasting Diets, Experts Warn

May 13, 2025 — Experts are urging people, especially those with existing heart or vascular conditions, to seek medical advice before attempting to lose weight using ...

Drug to Slow Alzheimer's Well Tolerated Outside of Clinical Trial Setting

May 12, 2025 — In a recent study, researchers found adverse events were rare and manageable among clinic patients with very mild or mild Alzheimer's disease who received lecanemab ...

Cell Death Discovery Could Lead to Next-Gen Drugs for Neurodegenerative Conditions

May 12, 2025 — Researchers have discovered how to block cells dying, in a finding that could lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative conditions like ...

An Enzyme as Key to Protein Quality

May 9, 2025 — In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, proteins accumulate in the body's cells, fold incorrectly and clump together to form larger aggregates. Normally, ...

Promising Parkinson's Drug Decoded

May 8, 2025 — How well our brain functions depends heavily on the performance of our nerve cells. That is why they are regularly checked for their proper function -- defective cell components are marked, disposed ...

HIV Drugs Offer 'Substantial' Alzheimer's Protection, New Research Indicates

May 8, 2025 — The drugs, called NRTIs, have the potential to prevent a million cases of Alzheimer's every year, the researchers ...

Sleep Apnea During REM Sleep Linked to Memory-Related Brain Changes

May 7, 2025 — Obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that causes lower oxygen levels during sleep, is linked to degeneration of brain regions associated with memory through damage to the brain's small blood ...

Are You Curious? It Might Help You Stay Sharp as You Age

May 7, 2025 — Psychology literature has shown that curiosity tends to decline with age. Psychologists shows one type of curiosity can increase well into old age, contradicting prior research. Older adults who ...

Knowing Your Alzheimer's Risk May Ease Anxiety but Reduce Motivation for Healthy Habits

May 7, 2025 — Learning about one's risk for Alzheimer's disease may not lead to emotional distress, but motivation to maintain healthy lifestyle changes tends to fade over time, even in people at high ...

Most People Say They Want to Know Their Risk for Alzheimer's Dementia, Fewer Follow Through

May 6, 2025 — A new study examines the choices healthy research volunteers make when given the opportunity to learn their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease dementia. The researchers found a large ...

A Long and Ongoing Look at the Secrets of Human Longevity and Healthy Aging

May 5, 2025 — It's notable when a scientific study reaches the decade mark, but when the topic is the healthy aging of people who have lived 10 times as long, it just means there's still a lot more to ...

Molecular Double Agent: Protein 'Eato' Plays Surprising Role in Protecting the Brain

May 1, 2025 — A team of researchers has made a discovery in fruit flies that could change the way we understand brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in humans. The scientists found that Eato ...

A Protein Link Between Brain Diseases and Leaky Blood Vessels

Apr. 30, 2025 — Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Surprisingly, the protein ...

Increasing Physical Activity in Middle Age May Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease

Apr. 30, 2025 — An increase in physical activity between the ages of 45 and 65 could help prevent Alzheimer's disease, while inactivity may be detrimental to brain ...

Depression and Other Mental Health Conditions Linked With Immune Response, Study Finds

Apr. 30, 2025 — Depression, schizophrenia and other mental health conditions affect 1 in 4 people in their lifetime, but mechanisms underlying these conditions are poorly understood. New research has linked the ...

Researchers Find That Increase of 'CLU' Protein Promotes Brain Resilience and Could Provide Protection from Alzheimer's Disease

Apr. 30, 2025 — Recently approved Alzheimer's drugs offer a step forward for treating the disease, but new therapeutic strategies are needed to complement them and provide personalized therapeutic approaches. ...

New Model to Study Hypertension and Aortic Aneurysms Developed

Apr. 30, 2025 — Investigators have discovered a new pathway that may lead to a treatment for high blood pressure and aortic aneurysms. By creating a new laboratory model for studying these conditions, the team ...

Low Iron Could Cause Brain Fog During Menopause Transition

Apr. 28, 2025 — New research sheds light on an understudied area of science: iron levels in the blood and their relationship to cognitive performance in women transitioning into menopause. The findings are good news ...

Light-Based Data Made Clearer With New Machine Learning Method

Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more precise medical diagnoses and sample ...

New Body-Fluid Biomarker for Parkinson's Disease Discovered

Apr. 25, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new biomarker for Parkinson's disease. A misfolded protein facilitates reliable diagnosis even in the early stages of Parkinson's disease in body ...

AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimer's Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate

Apr. 25, 2025 — A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function that triggers a pathway that ...

In Down Syndrome Mice, 40Hz Light and Sound Improve Cognition, Neurogenesis, Connectivity

Apr. 25, 2025 — A new study provides new evidence that sensory stimulation of a gamma-frequency brain rhythm may promote broad-based restorative neurological health ...

Immune Cells Drive Congenital Paralysis Disease

Apr. 25, 2025 — Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease the ...