According to a recent Swedish study there may be a connection between eating fast food and an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
The study found that mice fed a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months developed a preliminary stage of the morbid irregularities that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The [...]

The causes of Parkinson’s disease are not well understood. But it appears to result from several risk factors. Exposure to unknown environmental toxicants, toxic endogenous compounds, and genetic alterations are thougt as the risk factors of Parkinson’s disease.
Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Parkinson’s disease
Both mitochondria and oxidative stress play a crucial role [...]

In our daily life we don’t even think how we move our bodies. It just happens whenever we want it to. But in order to understand what happens to the body during Parkinson’s disease , it is quite useful to have some knowledge about how brain controls our movements, or in other words our “motor [...]

The biological mechanism involved in the formation of Alzheimer’s disease is complex, as several factors contribute to the pathology of the disease. Because of that There is a number of different therapies which address distinct aspects of the Alzheimer’s disease. [...]

The exact cause of the Alzheimer’s disease is still unknown. But some pathological features of the disease help physicians to get substantial information about it. Precence of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, and a loss of neurons and synapses in [...]