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Educational attainment is linked to reduced white matter hyperintensity burden in older adults, with vascular risk factors serving as a key mediator.

Early diagnosis and noninvasive monitoring of neurological disorders require sensitivity to elusive cellular-level ...

Sadly, there is no cure for Huntington’s disease. But a couple new research papers suggests this may be about to change.

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Professional soccer players and American football stars are at much greater risk of developing dementia. What can we do to help them?

Older adults with gum disease have more signs of brain white matter damage than those with good periodontal health. The corresponding study was published in Neurology Open Access. "While more research ...

Consider the everyday challenges people face: the diseases and health conditions lived with and lived through, the appointments made, the relatives to care for, the bodies and minds to maintain. All ...

Consuming at least three alcoholic drinks per day is associated with increased severity of acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and signs of more advanced cerebral small vessel disease, researchers ...

Cerebral white matter disease (WMD) may result from the accumulation of silent embolic brain infarcts in the setting of subclinical, nonstenotic cervical carotid atherosclerosis. The contribution of ...

WMHV was significantly greater for participants with PD vs PH (median percentage WMH: 2.83 vs 2.52); there was an association for PD with the highest WMHV quartile, with crude and adjusted odds ratios ...

Share on Pinterest A new study aims to explain how menopause restructures the brain. Pawel Wewiorski/Getty Images A research team from Puerto Rico carried out a literature review to compile findings ...