For many patients and caregivers with neurological diseases, receiving a diagnosis often triggers a complex series of emotions. And while it’s an answer that helps provide clarity, it’s not always the ...

Eight years in the making, a discovery by neuroscientists highlights the value of long-term, fundamental research and provides important information for future drug targets. It took eight long years ...

When Dr. Neha Gandhi was a medical student in India, she—like so many others around the world—participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Little did she know that years later, she would be a ...

Researchers are making strides in understanding the disease mechanism of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Syracuse University researchers are making strides in ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Metabolon, Inc., a diagnostics and services company offering the industry’s leading biochemical profiling technology, announces the publication of ...

Inflammation has become a lucrative buzzword in health marketing. The meaning is usually unclear, but the vague implication is that this is something to avoid. Turmeric and yoga and sugar substitutes ...

This basic science could aid the development of new therapies for the crippling disease, which prevents the brain from being able to communicate with muscles, eventually causing paralysis and ...

Our brains function by electrical and chemical signaling. Recording brain wave patterns can be very helpful in conditions like epilepsy, but the potential of this inexpensive and easily applied ...

The causes of the serious muscle disease ALS still remain unknown. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, among others, have examined a type of cell in the ...

It took eight long years of research, but now an international team led by neuroscientists at Université de Montréal has discovered a basic molecular mechanism that better helps understand how Lou ...