Neurosciences

Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators have identified key clinical findings that can help clinicians recognize patients with potentially treatable causes of rapidly progressive dementia, who [...]

Surgical removal of both ovaries is associated with an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism in women younger than 43, Mayo Clinic researchers report [...]

The risks of dementia, cancer and vascular disease increase with age, but the connection between the conditions is not fully understood. Now, Mayo Clinic researchers [...]

While hormone therapy has been one avenue to address the symptoms associated with menopause, over the years the treatment also has raised a slew of [...]

As he graduates from Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, a new scientist looks back on his journey. Lee Peyton, Ph.D., wanted to become a [...]

Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles on caloric restriction. The first article focuses on replicating the effects of fasting. The final article [...]

Gene expression can amplify the risk of neurodegenerative diseases for patients, but researchers are still figuring out which genes have an outsized effect on risk [...]

Damage to brain cells in two separate neurodegenerative diseases — Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy — is not limited to specific parts of the [...]

In preclinical studies, Mayo Clinic scientists and collaborators have identified the molecular mechanism used by the brain's "cleaners" as they remove a problematic protein in [...]

Mayo Clinic discovery scientists are working to better understand the pathology of Alzheimer's, and are one step closer with research on a gene variant that [...]