Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a progressive muscle disease affecting one in 3800-6300 live male births and leads to ambulatory loss, respiratory problems...
A discovery of high relevance in medical research will be published in Volume 55, number 4 of December 2016 of the prestigious “Journal of Alzheimer’s disease...
Bordeaux, France – A French observational study in real life showed that dementia patients benefiting from occupational therapy sessions report relevant...
Tests that measure the sense of smell may soon become common in neurologists’ offices. Scientists have been finding increasing evidence that the sense of smell...
An enzyme found in the fluid around the brain and spine is giving researchers a snapshot of what happens inside the minds of Alzheimer’s patients and how that...
Antipsychotic drug use is associated with a 60 percent increased risk of mortality among persons with Alzheimer's disease, shows a recent study from the...
The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (JAD) is pleased to announce that its Alzheimer’s Funding Analyzer (AFA) now includes all Alzheimer’s Association (AA) grants...
Overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased substantially in recent decades, and today affect a third of the adolescent population in some developed...
A machine learning method analyzing large amounts of health information has potential in assessing the risk of cognitively healthy older people for later...
Aurin Biotech (aurinbiotech.com), announced that it has developed a simple saliva test that can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, as well as predict its future...
As the U.S. races to legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational use, a new, large scale brain imaging study gives reason for caution. Published in the...
A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston offers important insight into how Alzheimer’s disease begins within the brain. The...
