Neurodegenerative disease News

The most common form of prion disease that affects humans is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, popularly known as Mad Cow Disease, is another prion disease Prion diseases are caused by disrupting the structure of a normal human prion protein, producing toxic clumps in the brain Because prion protein is central to disease, reducing levels of prion protein in patients is a promising therapeutic approach

The findings revealed that when APOE4-carrying mice were fed a Western-like diet high for 12 weeks, they showed increased deposits of beta-amyloid protein plaques – a marker for inflammation – in their brains.

Parkinson's disease -- a neurodegenerative disease that impacts movement, often including tremors -- affects nearly seven to 10 million persons around the world, according to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. 

Researchers should not rely on the clinical symptoms of memory loss alone to diagnose Alzheimer's disease because there could be other indicants of the neurodegenerative disease that do not initially affect memory, says a new study.

Multiple sclerosis is known to run in certain families, but attempts to find genes linked to the disease have been elusive.