Michael Garriot and Dr. Anthony Davis discuss the fatal brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) and the medical science working ...

There have been no confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease in the Lehigh Valley proper, but a deer management area covers ...

Genetic prion disease generally manifests with cognitive difficulties, poor muscle control and abrupt jerking movements of muscle groups and/or entire limbs. The three major phenotypes of genetic ...

MY first customer was a really old man,” Ilja says, recalling the moment she was first forced to have sex for money. “You just never forget.” She was only 17 years old when sex traffickers ...

A compound normally associated with red blood cells may also play a game-changing antioxidant role in the brain, a study has ...

Scientists have revealed that immune cells in Alzheimer's brains behave differently from those in brains of people without the disease – a discovery that could lead to new treatments. Published in ...

In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS, excessive H2O2 from reactive astrocytes triggers a vicious cycle of oxidative stress, protein aggregation, and neuronal loss.

In a new study led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), researchers found that mitochondrial dysfunction in the ...

Here's what to know and what this means for Alzheimer's research. Alzheimer’s disease sparks a cascade of changes throughout the body that lead to a slew of debilitating symptoms. But there’s one ...