Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or ...

Jonathan Hughes, diagnosed with rare Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, pursues his dream of completing a 5K race with community support in San Diego.

Actor turned rare disease advocate Luke Rosen tells how his daughter, Susannah, lives with a KIF1A-associated neurological ...

What is Nipah virus? Officials across the globe, including the US, are on alert after a deadly bat-borne virus was detected in humans.

Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and we're starting to ...

The virus — called Nipah — kills more than half of the people it infects. Nipah virus, which was named after the village in Malaysia where the first known patient lived, is part of the same family of ...

PPT1 is a recombinant protein used to treat an ultra-rare disease called Batten disease CLN1 for which there is ...

For some time, we've known that it's rare to see people with both cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Now, scientists believe ...

HOLLY Nayler was just days away from her third birthday when she suffered her first seizure. It was the earliest sign of a rare form of childhood dementia, a disease doctors would later diagnose ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

The Food and Drug Administration paused trials for two experimental gene therapies from Regenxbio after one child developed a ...

Virginia Tech researchers discovered an indication hidden in the brain that may help doctors identify children suffering from ...