Fernando Valenzuela’s cause of death has been determined after the Dodgers legend died last month at the age of 63. According ...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to help investigate a mysterious brain illness that ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD ... leading to bleeding in the lower sections of the brain. Wernicke disease can cause physical symptoms like double vision and a loss of muscle coordination.

In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.

The genetic mutation that causes Huntington's disease (HD)—a devastating brain disease that disrupts mobility and diminishes ...

Immunotherapy, which enhances the immune system's T cell response to eliminate cancer cells, has emerged as a key approach in ...

A CAR-T trial is one of several efforts that suggest there’s hope of treating the “worst imaginable childhood brain tumor,” ...

People with chronic cocaine use can experience cognitive impairments and motor dysfunction that can be mitigated with antioxidant or anti-inflammatory agents; this supports the authors’ claim that ...

Travaglini says he would often visit his grandmother and as she grew older, her Alzheimer’s grew worse. He decided in Grad ...

When it comes to brain health, some things are out of your control. Age is the biggest risk factor for developing dementia, according to the World Health Organization, but others such as genetics ...

We often believe that symptoms need to be severe, constant and interfering to mean they are something serious and worth going to the doctor for. "To encourage more timely diagnosis of brain tumour ...