A comprehensive new review is shedding light on the growing evidence that gut microbiome imbalances—known as dysbiosis—may ...

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At its core, SMA is caused by a deficiency in a protein called Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) . This protein is essential for the health and survival of motor neurons—the nerve cells that sit in the ...

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John Lukens, director of UVA's Harrison Family Translational Research Center in Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases—housed within the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology—and his ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is revealing why traumatic brain injury increases the chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease – and the discovery is pointing to a ...

For many years, patients who sustained a mild traumatic brain injury, often referred to simply as a concussion, were told that their symptoms should resolve within a few weeks or months. A new ...

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In April, the future was looking bleak for an experimental Alzheimer's drug called valiltramiprosate, or ALZ-801. Researchers had just released topline results of a study of more than 300 people age ...

Not all concussions are created equal. A new study has revealed nine early warning signs that a mild head injury might linger longer than expected, and why spotting them within hours could change ...