don't infect human brain tissue, according to Science News. The most common prion disease in people is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Another prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta—a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Researchers at California Institute of Technology revealed that the human brain processes information at 10 bits per second, far slower compared to sensory cells. Despite this, our brain ...

Subtle changes in the brain ... timely as the Huntington's disease therapeutic landscape expands and progresses toward preventive clinical trials." More information: Somatic CAG repeat expansion ...

Over the past 20 years, they have established that concept cells not only exist but are critical to the way the brain abstracts and stores information ... Quanta Magazine They then showed the patients ...

The doc has shared one of his go-to meals for warding off brain disease thanks to anti-inflammatory ingredients, and he promises that it’s great for easy meal prep, too. Dr. Jonathan J.

For the first time, the team has provided compelling evidence that the brain’s characteristic rhythmic patterns play a crucial role in information processing. While these oscillatory dynamics have ...

BOSTON — Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington's disease, a devastating and ... causing nerve cells in parts of the brain to break down and die.

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington's disease, a devastating and ... causing nerve cells in parts of the brain to break down and die. The genetic mutation linked ...