An advocate for New Brunswick patients suffering from unusual neurological symptoms is calling for the retraction of a recent scientific report that found no evidence of a mystery brain disease in the ...

In recent years, some scientists and advocates have warned that playing contact sports like football and hockey may increase the risk of brain diseases like Alzheimer's disease or chronic traumatic ...

Background Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs as a sporadic, iatrogenic and genetic fatal neurodegenerative disorder. [1] With the exception of genetic types, CJD can only be definitively diagnosed ...

A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give researchers and clinicians unique insight into brain function and disease, researchers at the ...

This approach enabled them to detect subtle shifts in cellular activity throughout different stages of the disease, including early phases before visible brain damage appears.

Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, multi-step process by which they are made. During brain development ...