Identifying early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
When a 60-year-old tells her nurse she’s been forgetting things—a dinner night with friends, a neighbor’s name, or to call for a grandchild’s birthday, for
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Mouse studies link some autism to brain cells that guide sociability and platonic love
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that new experiments with genetically engineered mice have found clear connections among a range of autism types and abnormalities in
Should I run or not? The neural basis of aggression and flight
Our brains are wired to protect us from threats. For social animals like humans, threats often come from other members of our own species when
Possible genetic triggers of autism symptoms and motor issues identified for several rare diseases
New research on the genetics of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes could help in developing personalised therapies for associated mental illness and autism features. Prader-Willi syndrome
Scientists engineer new cancer immunotherapy to train immune system in cancer fight
A groundbreaking new type of cancer immunotherapy developed at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai trains the innate immune system to help it
Study identifies pitfall for correcting mutations in human embryos with CRISPR
In a paper published today in the journal Cell, scientists describe unexpected, undesirable outcomes after editing genes in human embryos with CRISPR, a genomic editing
Brain imaging of tau protein in patients with various forms of dementia
A new imaging-based method could enable the early detection and differentiation of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the buildup of tau protein