New research published in Molecular Neurodegeneration has revealed that mutations in three genes known to cause familial ...

A group of researchers in the lab of Prof. Lucía Chávez Gutiérrez (VIB-KU Leuven) have unraveled the genetic contributions to familial Alzheimer's Disease development and revealed how specific ...

The slow loss of memory, thinking, and independence that defines Alzheimer’s disease continues to affect millions worldwide.

A young Chinese man diagnosed with Alzheimer's at the age of 19 is demanding that the early causes of the disease be ...

Hopkins neuroscientist Richard Huganir is close to finding a potential life-changing treatment for kids with SYNGAP1-related ...

Using the gene scissors CRISPR and stem cells, researchers at Stockholm University and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at King's College London have managed to identify a common ...

For patients with disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, mutations in the same gene could require different ... and frontotemporal dementia. "There are at least a dozen or more other genes ...

Fundraising efforts have helped jump-start gene therapy that could help patients regardless of mutation ... despite all my best efforts to delay it," Kramer-Golinkoff said. Before her illness ...

Scientists have discovered a rare genetic mutation ... could lead to new therapies to induce better sleep and rest. Doctors recommend at least seven to nine hours of bedtime each night, with sleep ...

An extended family in that South American country has a devastating genetic variant that triggers early-onset dementia. "They get Alzheimer's at age 45 like clockwork," said Kosik, a professor of ...