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Evidence is emerging that lower extremity peripheral nerve impairments are associated with and may even precede dementia.

Middle-aged adults who spend just 9 additional minutes a day participating in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) experience improved cognition.

People with higher dietary zinc intake have a nearly one-third lower risk of migraine than those who get little zinc in their diets, according to results from a cross-sectional study of more than 11,000 American adults.

Obesity reportedly increases the risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS), but little is known about its association with disability accumulation.

Extremely hot and extremely cold temperatures were associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular mortality in an analysis of data from countries around the world.

Sleep duration, sleep deprivation and the sleep-wake cycle are thought to play an important role in the generation of epileptic activity and may also influence seizure risk.

Women with epilepsy are recommended high doses of folic acid before and during pregnancy owing to risk of congenital anomalies associated with antiseizure medications. Whether prenatal exposure to high-dose folic acid is associated with increases in the risk of childhood cancer is unknown.

In the last 6 years, following the first pathological description of presumed amyloid-beta (Aβ) transmission in humans (in 2015) and subsequent experimental confirmation (in 2018), clinical cases of iatrogenic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA)-attributed to the transmission of Aβ seeds-have been increasingly recognised and reported.

Of the more than 6 million Alzheimer's patients in the U.S. age 65 or older, nearly two-thirds are women. A new study may help explain the gender gap - and offer clues to new treatments for helping patients of both sexes fight back.

Neurodegenerative diseases exert an overwhelming socioeconomic burden all around the globe.