Study links early smell loss in Alzheimer’s to immune cells removing key brain fibers, suggesting potential for early ...

A fading sense of smell can be one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease even before cognitive impairments manifest.

In the past two years, a spate of technological advances and promising results in mice have been laying the groundwork for ...

“CTE is linked to repetitive brain trauma and has a distinct pathology that can only be diagnosed at autopsy,” says Dr. Ross Zafonte, a principal investigator of the Football Players Health Study at ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in older people, affecting up to one in 20 individuals ...

Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a rare brain ...

The progressive brain disease can be caused by repeated trauma to the head and has caused serious health problems for ...

Participants in combat sports who grew up in poor neighborhoods might be more likely to suffer brain changes associated with ...

Naegleria fowleri is a one-celled organism that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains is “often called the ...

Hood River County in Oregon reported three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare human brain disease very similar to ...

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with what health officials described as a deadly "brain-eating infection" after ...