A new study has linked a disrupted blood-retina barrier to Alzheimer's disease, suggesting that vascular changes in the eyes ...

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A blood test may help identify individuals at risk for Alzheimer’s before they show any signs of disease, according to a new ...

Actor Chris Hemsworth is known in the movies as the indestructible Thor, but in real life, even the strongest can be struck ...

Examining dream content can assist in the diagnosis of psychiatric and neurological illnesses. What does fighting off a lion mean?

During this stage: heartbeat and breathing slow down further no eye movements body temperature drops Sleep spindles and K-complexes are two distinct brain wave features that appear for the first ...

Recent weeks have seen breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s research, sparking hopes of “the beginning of the end” of the disease, ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have identified a new molecular mechanism for autism, potentially opening up new methods of treatment. Dr. Haitham Amal and his team at the ...

Practicing paced breathing exercises appears to have an impact on the levels of peptides associated with Alzheimer's disease, ...

Minnesota scientists have watched chronic wasting disease (CWD) — a fatal, neurological illness — kill deer and elk. Now, ...

When the critic Joanna Biggs was thirty-two, her mother, still in her fifties, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. “Everything wobbled,” she ... introspective visitations of classic and recent books, ...

In the study, titled, "The NO Answer for Autism Spectrum Disorder," researchers found elevated nitric oxide indicators in stem cells and blood samples taken from low-functioning autistic patients, and ...