A groundbreaking study reveals how a rare combination of genetics, proteomics, and environmental factors may hold the key to delaying or preventing Alzheimer's, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

Scientists are urgently seeking fluid biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia, the most common dementing illness among 40- and ...

In the last 5 years significant progress has been made in potential dementia treatments, yet many of these treatments come ...

He has had leadership roles in the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration Medical Advisory Council, the FTD Disorders Scientific Advisory Board, the Tau Consortium Scientific Advisory Board ...

Researchers hoped to identify clues that will lead to the development of new treatments for age-related macular degeneration, CWRU said in a recent news release. CWRU and VA researchers examined ...

Researchers have uncovered the mechanism underlying frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) caused by variants in the valosin-containing protein (VCP) gene. Their study, which used a fruit fly ...

and Professor Hitoshi Okazawa from Institute of Science Tokyo and Maastricht University in the Netherlands uncovered the mechanism underlying frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) caused by ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still carry the genetic fingerprint of that intermixing. Since then ...

Here authors show reserpine's disease gene-independent influence on photoreceptor survival and emphasizes the importance of considering biological sex in understanding inherited retinal degeneration ...