A Mayo Clinic study finds that after memory begins to decline, executive function is the next brain function to deteriorate in the progression from mild cognitive impairment, a pre-Alzheimer's disease condition, to Alzheimer's disease....

Over the last several months, the labs of Yale Goldman, MD, PhD, Director of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Erika Holzbaur, PhD, Professor of Physiology, have published a group o...

Older women who experience migraines with aura have a higher risk of experiencing heart attacks, strokes, angina and heart-related deaths, say American researchers. Older women who experience migraines without aura are at no higher risk th...

In the second it takes you to read these words, tens of thousands of vesicles in your optic nerves are released in sequence, opening tiny surface pores to pass chemical signals to the next cell down the line, telling your brain what you're...

MemoryPharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: MEMY) today announced that it has achieved aset of defined preclinical milestones in its collaboration with Roche forthe discovery and development of nicotinic alpha-7 receptor agonists forthe treatment...

New research published in Nature has linked a specific gene to a common type of dementia. The discovery of the connection between frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and a gene called 慻ranulin' will open up an entirely field of research in...

A UCLA imaging study finds political party allegiance affects the brain activity of partisans viewing the faces of candidates. Published online July 9, 2006, by the peer-reviewed journal Neuropsychologia, the study finds a partisan's b...

If an elderly woman loses weight, it is possible she will develop Alzheimer's disease in the coming years, say researchers from The Mayo Clinic, USA, in a study of over 1,000 people. Many people in the study who had dementia had lost weigh...

Scientists have linked a recently discovered gene to a rare nervous system disease called hereditary spastic paraplegia, for which there is no cure. The discovery could lead to development of drugs that target the defective gene, said the...

Diseases and injuries that affect central nervous system neurons are among the illnesses that are hardest to cure. Their frequency increases dramatically with age, and morbidity associated with neurological disorders is expected to rise dr...