Creatine, increasingly popular as a dietary and exercise supplement, has shown the ability to counteract laboratory models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, and Parkinson's disease...
It has long been a dogma of neuroscience that the human brain is born with all the neurons it will ever have, and that those neurons must endure for a lifetime. But evidence has been accumulating...
Fragments of amyloid-β precursor protein (APP) previously associated with Alzheimer disease pathology are present at dramatically higher levels in the brains of young, perfectly normal adults...
The relatively recent realization that neurogenesis is alive and kicking in the adult hippocampus has scientists wondering if the phenomenon can be exploited...
Modafinil was first found to increase cognitive functions in schizophrenic patients when it was used to counteract the sedative properties of atypical antipsychotics...
Now, with the use of in vivo imaging, two groups have caught dendrites in the act of rewiring cortical circuits in live mice experiencing motor or sensory learning...
A study found that after two years, AD patients on a comprehensive care plan fared no better than study participants receiving standard care at memory clinics...
The drug lithium is usually prescribed to patients with bipolar disorder. But evidence is growing that it might help with some neurodegenerative diseases...
Anyone following the primary literature on Alzheimer's disease research knows that keeping abreast of this rapidly evolving field has become a Herculean task...