Studies show that common vaccines, including the flu shot and shingles vaccine, can significantly lower the risk of dementia ...

Could an anomaly in the developing brain explain motor difficulties occurring decades later in people with rare movement ...

Muscle atrophy is when muscles shrink from lack of use. It can occur due to an injury, a neurological condition, or from a ...

Spinal muscular atrophy affects all the body's muscles. For a long time, it was considered a disease caused solely by the ...

Older people who have little social contact with others may be more likely to have loss of overall brain volume, and in areas of the brain affected by dementia, than people with more frequent social ...

Spinal muscular atrophy is a rare genetic disease of the nerve cells in the spinal cord that can appear as early as infancy. The disease leads to a progressive loss of muscle strength. Those affected ...