Researchers have identified a novel therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease by focusing on astrocytes, non-neuronal brain cells involved in waste removal.

A research team led by Dr. Hoon Ryu from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Sang-Rok Oh) Brain Disease Research Group, in collaboration with Director Justin C. Lee of the ...

A research team has uncovered a new mechanism involving astrocytes for treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) and proposed a novel ...

A research team led by Dr. Hoon Ryu from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Sang-Rok Oh) Brain ...

Donald Trump on Saturday raised eyebrows with a comment he made on a rally stage. Trump spoke at an indoor rally in Prairie ...

This time, however, the focus was specifically on dementia. While genetics play a key role in health outcomes, we're increasingly coming to understand how diet is an important factor in combating ...

Dementia is a syndrome that involves severe loss of cognitive abilities as a result of disease or injury. Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by ...

"When you mention anything about dementia, everyone is interested," he says wryly. "It's a thing that we are all engaged with, and it's a thing that scares a lot of people." But Kiernan believes ...

Chiappe, who was 88 and suffered senile dementia, was living at the elderly home since last December. Nicknamed “thick lips” or “Marcel the Corsican” he begun his crime rampage in 1947 ...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has said it estimates that about 267,700 people are living with dementia in the community, which represents almost 70 per cent of people with the ...

It took 19 years for the symptoms to emerge. Tom Beyrer, who served for six months as a police officer at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, was 65 when his ...