Research
Women have been under-represented in stroke clinical trials for the past 30 years, new research has found, making it harder to interpret what the findings really mean for them.
Rugby’s governing authorities are being urged to take “urgent preventative action” to protect players at all levels of the sport after new research suggests the game may have been safer in the pre-professional era.
New understanding of how brain cells talk could help in the treatment of mental health conditions and early-stage neurodegenerative diseases.
The discovery of a new role for the brain’s immune cells could have implications for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease and stroke.
Research into Huntington’s Disease is being driven forward by a £3.3m investment, in a project hailed as giving the first 'realistic chance' of finding treatments to slow down its progression.
An anti-viral gene that impacts the risk of both Alzheimer’s disease and severe COVID-19 has been identified by a research team.
As one of the first organisations to recognise and react to the urgent need to address head injury in sport, The Drake Foundation has become a central player in the fast-developing debate over how to best protect players at all levels from the devastating later-life impact of neurodegenerative disease.
Healthy people with a higher genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease may show differences in brain structure and in cognitive test scores relating to reasoning and attention, a new study has revealed.
A project hailed as having the potential to revolutionise understanding of the consequences of repetitive head impacts and injury in sport is being launched in the US.
A new blood test can detect brain damage in people who have sustained head injury, and could help predict clinical outcomes and identify risk of dementia.
