The family of Bruce Willis recently revealed that the actor has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD. While you’ve likely heard of dementia and associate the health condition with...
Few treatments exist for neurodegenerative diseases that progressively rob a person’s ability to move and think, yet the results of a new study is opening additional approaches for exploration.
90 to 95 percent of ALS cases are "sporadic", meaning these patients had no clear family history of the condition, and therefore no indication that they were at risk. A...
Scientists report a significant step toward combatting two degenerative brain diseases that chip away at an individual’s ability to move, and think. A targeted therapy developed by scientists at University...
University of Utah neurologists Stefan Pulst, M.D., and Summer Gibson, M.D., are authors on a collaborative, multi-institutional study published in the journal Science. The research identifies mutations in a gene...
Many illnesses are easily cured with a visit to your doctor and a trip to the pharmacy. But a trio of baffling conditions has kept researchers hard at work for...
