As many as 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease. It destroys brain cells, causing memory loss and problems with thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong ...

Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms ...

High levels of a certain enzyme in the fluid around a person’s brain and spinal cord could be a sign that they have Parkinson’s disease – potentially enabling the condition to be diagnosed earlier.

It can take months or years for doctors to determine whether people with early signs of memory loss have Alzheimer's disease. But experts say a new generation of blood tests may replace the expensive ...

Among the many difficult features of Alzheimer’s is that doctors can never really say with certainty which patients who show signs of memory loss will go on to develop the neurodegenerative disorder.

Researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis and Lund University in Sweden have taken a step closer toward developing a blood test that could be used during an annual doctor’s office visit to ...

Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with significant memory loss who are on their way to developing Alzheimer's disease. Although there has ...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental blood test might be able to help doctors predict whether someone will recover their mobility following a spinal cord injury. The test looks ...

To develop targeted preventive strategies, it is necessary to determine the measures that can identify and predict spinal pain in children and adolescents. Currently, the spine of children and ...