Synaptic plasticity—the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning—is one of the neural ...

They manage to slow down the progression of Huntington's disease using a gene therapy treatment called AMT 130.

Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may ...

Synaptic plasticity — the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning — is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

Leslie M. Thompson, Donald Bren Professor of psychiatry and human behavior as well as neurobiology and behavior at the University of California, Irvine, has received an $11,999,933 grant from the ...

I’ve never cared much for Thanksgiving. As a child, the forced family gathering was tolerable only because it marked the halfway point to Christmas (if we are measuring from Halloween, which is what ...

On a video call in early September, Sarah Tabrizi first saw the data that she and other researchers studying Huntington’s ...

Those with the sleep condition were more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease. But one treatment was found to help. By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi In a study published Monday in JAMA Neurology, ...

Parkinson's disease affects more than 1.1 million people in the U.S. Early treatment of obstructive sleep apnea -- a condition that causes breathing to briefly pause -- may decrease the risk of ...

UniQure shares fell Thursday after the gene therapy company said its Huntington's disease drug hit more regulatory roadblocks. Shares of the Lexington, Mass., company fell 15% early Thursday, to ...