Five cases of Alzheimer's disease are believed to have arisen as a result of medical treatments decades earlier, reports a team ...Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the deposition of clumped proteins in the brain and progressive neuronal cell death. Although the causal link between protein aggregates and neurodegeneration is clear, it is still unclear in what way ...
A promising new treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has shown 'very encouraging' early results following its use in six ...Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease , are fast-moving, fatal dementia syndromes associated with the formation of aggregates of the prion protein, PrP. How these aggregates form ...Prions, aggregates implicated in neurological diseases, may also have an important function in helping regulate the transcription of messenger RNA in memory ...