Repairing the Brain With Stem Cells? A BrainTalk With Jack Price
As part of our BrainTalk series, Being Patient spoke with Jack Price, professor of developmental neurobiology at King’s College London, about how stem cell…
As part of our BrainTalk series, Being Patient spoke with Jack Price, professor of developmental neurobiology at King’s College London, about how stem cell…
Simulations and experiments show how infrared laser irradiation could destroy the harmful protein clumps and tangles that indicate Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is one of the…
Alzheimer’s disease disproportionately affects people of color. So, why is the research so white? “This labor cannot just be on the backs of Black,…
Alzheimer’s clinical trials may take decades, but a new discovery could cut clinical trial time down to a matter of weeks. For nearly a century,…
Scientists at UCSF have discovered an exercise enzyme. Exercise is one of the most well-studied and most powerful ways of protecting the brain from…
In another step toward what could be the first treatment for early stage Alzheimer’s, Biogen and Eisai today said they have completed an application…
A closer look at a one-patient stem-cell therapy experiment to treat Parkinson’s. For decades, research has been conducted on the potential of transplanting healthy…
“We are looking for older volunteers with MCI or mild dementia due to AD or Lewy body dementia, and healthy older individuals, who wish…
More than a century after its discovery, Alzheimer’s disease still has no definitive cure, and hundreds of drugs and chemical trials have hit dead…
While pharmaceutical companies have invested decades of research and billions of dollars in the quest to cure to Alzheimer’s, more than 100 experimental therapies…
Decades ago, a chaperone was a person who accompanied an unmarried girl in public. Now, however, we’re learning that a chaperone — in this…
This story was originally published by Kaiser Health News on October 4, 2016 BEVERLY HILLS — Sitting beside a neatly made crib, 88-year-old Vivian…
The free app, called My House of Memories, features more than 100 pages of carefully curated images meant to evoke events from the lives…
For a disease that has no cure or treatment to stave off the symptoms, a new study offering even a sliver of positive news…
While it might sound like a New Age dream that a shrub known as “holy herb” from California could help treat Alzheimer’s, it’s not so…