Repeat expansion disorders, which are responsible for more than 40 neurological diseases, may be more common than clinical data would suggest. Epidemiological studies had estimated that REDs affect ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer’s disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle. Unexpectedly, the investigators found that 45 of 80 autopsy ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle. Neurogeneticists at the University of Florida led by Lien ...

Researchers from Goethe-Universität and collaborators investigated novel molecular biomarker candidates for spinocerebellar ataxia type 2, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG ...

Usually, most of us can zip a zipper without incident. But sometimes, an unwary dresser makes an alignment error that goes undetected until the ends of a garment don ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ...

Stefan Pulst, a neurologist at the University of Utah, sees hundreds of patients each year with puzzling brain diseases. But 15 years ago, he met a patient whom he thought could be the key to solving ...

Huntington's disease is a rare, inherited neurological disorder that affects individuals at the peak of their lives, causing permanent damage to brain cells and progressively affecting movement, ...