Some commonalities between Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia and certain brain conditions like tumors and subdural ...

Frontotemporal dementia patients with extrapyramidal symptoms have brainstem atrophy and reduced metabolism in certain areas of the brain significantly more often than patients without ...

Different brain atrophy patterns may explain variability in Alzheimers disease symptoms. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 10 / 161007113541.htm ...

They compared gray-matter volume in 18 regions of the brain with those in age-matched controls to estimate levels of atrophy, and used principle component analysis, a statistical tool that can pull ...

Because brain atrophy in Alzheimer's patients precedes clinical symptoms, researchers have proposed using it as a surrogate marker for pathology in ... suggested that genetics, lifestyle, and ...

A single, freely available, noninvasive brain scan done in just a few minutes during midlife can predict what chronic ...

In multiple sclerosis (MS), the body attacks myelin, the protective coating of nerves in the brain. This leads to various symptoms, such as memory issues, fatigue, lack of concentration, slow ...

PET scans of patients with early Alzheimer’s disease showed that binding of a marker of tau protein correlated to regions of atrophy in the brain (colored areas). [R. La Joie et al., Science ...

In addition to motor symptoms, ... Guo T, et al. Progressive brain atrophy in Parkinson’s disease patients who convert to mild cognitive impairment [published online July 6, 2019].

Importantly, because the study is observational, it cannot prove that poor sleep causes brain atrophy—only that there is a connection. “The study does not demonstrate causality,” Cho said.