Designed for advanced Parkinson’s with poorly controlled motor fluctuations, the infusion delivers steadier levodopa exposure than pills via continuous subcutaneous dosing.

Frailty can typically only be lessened through lifestyle changes, but a stem cell therapy seems to target the underlying ...

Without medical oversight, supplement-takers might accidentally get too much of a certain nutrient, to the point that it becomes toxic.

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Kren Harmon loves a good success story. The licensed clinical social worker runs a neurological therapy group for older adults at OSF HealthCare in Alton, Illinois. Attendees might have short term ...

Scientists have found a key brain network that’s disrupted by Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published today in Nature. The results change doctors’ understanding of what causes Parkinson’s ...

Isaiah Kletenik receives funding from the NIH. Nothing to disclose. Christopher M. Filley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Experiencing multiple acute stresses at the same time, as in natural disasters or mass shootings, can leave lasting memory scars. New research from the University of California, Irvine suggests that ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when lysosomes, the cellular sanitation machines responsible for those tasks, break down or ...

Some serious brain disorders begin with symptoms that are easy to misinterpret. A person may become confused, forgetful or paranoid and be treated for mental illness before doctors realize the ...

Not all depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia is the same. A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry identified a distinct subtype of psychiatric illness marked by brain inflammation, ...