Study of 500,000 medical records links viruses with Alzheimer's again and again ~health Article 524 words 29 votes
Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH official, fall under suspicion ~science Link 25 votes
The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes (in mice). ~health Article 957 words 20 votes
Menthol inhalation may boost cognitive ability in Alzheimer’s ~science Article 1091 words, published May 10 2023 19 votes
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have successfully implanted seven million lab-grown brain cells into a patient to treat Parkinson's disease ~health medicine Article 753 words 23 votes
Duty to Warn's John Gartner breaks down Donald Trump's cognitive decline ~health.mental Article 4325 words 32 votes
Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests ~health.mental Article 488 words 22 votes
Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure ~health medicine Article 1396 words 28 votes
My parents’ dementia felt like the end of joy. But when they got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations. ~tech Article 5461 words 19 votes
Injection of kidney protein improves working memory in monkeys ~science biology Article 814 words 9 votes
Alzheimer’s drug gets FDA panel’s backing, setting the stage for broader US use ~science medicine Article 826 words 13 votes
Scientists at the University of Helsinki say they have demonstrated that certain strains of Desulfovibrio bacteria are probable causes of Parkinson's disease in most cases ~health medicine Article 225 words 15 votes
Study of male footballers in Sweden, over many years, found they were one and a half times more likely to develop dementia than the general population ~sports.football Article 607 words 7 votes
European Commission contacted Swedish authorities after it emerged they were planning to deport a 74-year-old British woman with severe Alzheimers ~health Article 709 words 4 votes
Millions of Alzheimer’s patients have been given hope after a new drug has been shown to slow memory decline by 27% over eighteen months. It's the biggest breakthrough in a generation. ~health medicine Article 1219 words, published Nov 30 2022 8 votes
Lars von Trier, the acclaimed and controversial Danish director, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease ~movies Article 349 words 5 votes
Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud ~health medicine Article 1134 words 31 votes
Good vibrations - utilizing a vibrotactile glove to treat Parkinson's disease ~health Article 1572 words, published Oct 14 2021 4 votes
The story of Lee Holloway: The decline of a brilliant young coder ~health.mental Article 7198 words 13 votes
Experimental compound revives memory in Alzheimer’s disease mice ~science biology medicine Article 1003 words 11 votes
Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain ~health.mental Article 669 words 4 votes
Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 ~movies Article 838 words 12 votes
The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare ~tech Article 7186 words 24 votes
The downside of diagnosis by smartphone ~health medicine healthcare Article 3893 words, published Feb 5 2020 6 votes
How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure ~science medicine Article 4295 words, published Jun 25 2019 9 votes
Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world? ~science medicine Article 2071 words 8 votes
In a Colombian family’s dementia, a journey through race and history ~health Article 4266 words 3 votes
One of the best drug candidates for Alzheimer's, aducanumab, just failed to demonstrate efficacy ~health medicine Article 1287 words 5 votes