In addition to motor symptoms, Parkinson disease (PD) can also result in nonmotor symptoms like cognitive impairment and eventual dementia. Researchers have identified brain structure changes ...

A distinct pattern of frontal-temporal atrophy discernible on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may flag chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living patients, new research suggests. "These new ...

Dr. Diana Kerwin, a geriatrics medicine physician with Texas Health Dallas, told KERA's Sam Baker the news about the actor was not surprising after Willis's 2022 diagnosis of aphasia. It's actually ...

New findings relating to the clinical, genetic and molecular bases of neurodegenerative disorders have led to a shift away from traditional nomenclatures of clinical syndromes. Historically, ...

In a small percentage of people with Alzheimer’s disease, behavioral changes early on—such as a disregard for social norms or loss of empathy—can lead physicians to mistakenly diagnose behavioral ...

People with frontotemporal dementia grapple with behavioral, language, and cognitive problems as their disease worsens. It may be small comfort but for a few, their disease sparks an artistic flair, ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through ...

When we think about an episode of our life, whether having coffee with a friend last week or our trip to Europe last year, we may re-experience blowing on that steaming mug of cappuccino or glimpsing ...

A new map of brain tissue in people with HIV shows atrophy in several areas including a primary neurocognitive control center where shrinkage and loss of function can be seen in scans before clinical ...