Neurofilament light (NFL) is a powerful and sensitive biomarker for tracking neuronal health and disease progression.

Garda Rafael Liston told the court that Ms Cookes made admissions during questioning that she did not suffer from ...

The Kerry woman led a respected GP into filling out a form in 2020 saying she had been already diagnosed with the disease and ...

For example, PET radioligands are helpful in detecting acute ... diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and Huntington's disease (HD); and psychiatric disorders.

Repeats Raise Risk. The more STR expansions a person carried, the higher their odds for AD (left). People with more repeat expansions tended to have worse tau pathology as per Braak stage (right).

Samantha Cookes has pleaded guilty to stealing more than €60,000 from the Department of Social Protection at the Circuit ...

Accused collected tens of thousands from the State in supplementary and disability allowances over a four-year period, Tralee ...

In cases where there is no effective treatment or prophylaxis for the medical condition, for example Huntington Disease (HD), the decision to have a genetic test is especially emotionally fraught ...

Of this sample, 17% were in stage 1 ... somatic CAG repeat expansion driving the neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease,” Tabrizi said. “These findings are important because they tell ...

Huntington's disease, which affects about 30,000 Americans ... DNA sometimes undermine the stability of DNA-repeat tracts. For example, the MSH3 protein normally helps the cell monitor its ...

Two such examples include primary torsion dystonia 35 and Huntington disease 36. In addition, LD mapping is often most successful in population isolates, which generally show less allelic ...