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Study reveals process of how Parkinson's disease spreads in brain
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], September 21 (ANI): According to a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers, aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein spread in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease via a cellular waste-ejection process.
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Repeated infections associated with increased risk of some neurodegenerati
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 16 (ANI): Infections treated with speciality hospital care in early and mid-life are associated with an increased subsequent risk of Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's diseases (PD), but not amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a new study.
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Researchers find novel method for treating neurological disorders in patie
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): Researchers at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, and other organisations have successfully reversed the effects of several lethal inherited neurodegenerative diseases known as lysosom
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Researchers discover new way to reverse effects of neurological disease in
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 9 (ANI): Scientists at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and other institutions have reversed the effects of several life-threatening inherited neurodegenerative diseases known as lysosomal st
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Peptide 'fingerprint' enables earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [U.S], July 21 (ANI): Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease are caused by folding errors (misfolding) in proteins or peptides, i.e. by changes in their spatial structure. This is the result of minute deviations in the chemical composition of th
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Study find that copper leads to protein aggregation, may cause Parkinson's
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Copper exposure in the environment and the protein alpha-synuclein in the human brain could play an important role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Researchers were able to show how the protein takes on an unusual shape when exposed to large amounts
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Research shows new guidelines set to standardize swallowing fluoroscopy
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 6 (ANI): Swallowing fluoroscopy is the most common diagnostic test for patients with swallowing problems caused by conditions such as stroke, head and neck cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, or prolonged intubation. In spite of its widespread use, there wasn't any stan
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Research shows women have more brain changes after menopause
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): Postmenopausal women may have more brain biomarkers called white matter hyperintensities than premenopausal women or men of the same age, according to a new study funded by the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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Protecting the brain from dementia by inducing abnormal protein aggregates
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are defined by the pathogenic accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. Now, however, scientists have established that the p62 protein, which is involved in cellular protein degradation, can prevent
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KnowDis and IIT Delhi collaboration to accelerate drug discovery using AI
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI/PNN): The Machine Learning team at KnowDis & IIT-Delhi's Department of Chemical Engineering have joined hands to solve a critical problem of drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. This collaborat
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Research suggests brain cell insight might lead to new treatments for neur
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 12 (ANI): New research might help scientists locate immature cells in the central nervous system that can shed light on the causes of neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis and autoimmune disease that affects the brain and nervous system. Further, it can ev
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Abnormal response to cellular stress associated with Huntington's disease
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US] June 24 (ANI): During a new University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers found that the persistence of a marker of chronic cellular stress, previously associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia
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