Many people living with dementia never receive an accurate diagnosis, in part because Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and related conditions are notoriously difficult to tell apart and often ...

A first-of-its-kind study from UC San Francisco published Thursday found a simple blood test for middle-aged adults may ...

Figuring out how advanced a patient’s Alzheimer’s disease has become could be made much easier with this method.

New findings suggest metformin’s effects may hinge on a previously overlooked brain mechanism that regulates glucose balance. By influencing key neurons at extremely low concentrations, the drug ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

At last year’s AD/PD meeting in Vienna, what is now the Consortium for Biomedical Research and AI in Neurodegeneration was an idea. By this year’s AD/PD in Copenhagen, C-BRAIN had become an operating ...

It happens every day at North Shore University Hospital’s busy emergency department in Manhasset — patients who have fallen and hit their head are brought in for evaluation and possible treatment.

Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse future conversations through inner speech or sense the heat of a fire without ...

The Philippine peso weakened toward the key psychological level of 60 pesos per dollar, prompting the central bank to intervene to support the currency. The currency fell as much as 0.4% to 59.95 per ...

Numerous studies have confirmed that intelligence is associated with a specific set of religious and political beliefs, including liberalism, anti-racism, free speech, tolerance of others and being ...