New treatments may result from identifying a likely culprit behind the brain build-up that ties all neurodegenerative diseases together.

"Until we can understand each component, we can't expect to take the brain apart and put it back together again in order to figure out how it works."

Exposure to cadmium could speed up cognitive impairment, but it's even worse for people with a gene key to Alzheimer's disease.

A new biosensor technology may help pave the way for using stem cells to treat neurological diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

One woman's resistance to genetic, early-onset Alzheimer's disease may hold the key to future therapies for the neurodegenerative disease.

People with dementia who had a parent with the condition tend to develop symptoms years earlier, and even sooner if both parents had it.

Low levels of a protein called TOM-1 may be behind inflammation in Alzheimer's disease, but fixing the problem could be a new way to fight the condition.

There may be a way to prevent the worst damage in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's, ALS, and others.

A new drug called BPN14770 could protect against memory loss, nerve damage, and other Alzheimer's symptoms by fighting amyloid beta.

When researchers removed immune cells called microglia from mice with Alzheimer's, the disease's telltale plaques never formed.