A newly developed system to deliver tiny capsules containing anti-inflammatory proteins to specific parts of the brain may help fight Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. AstroCapsules, described in ...

NEW ORLEANS (June 23, 2025)—A novel PET imaging approach has revealed distinct patterns of brain inflammation in patients with progressive apraxia of speech (PAOS), a rare neurodegenerative disorder ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive memory loss and a significant decline in ...

What does gut fermentation and stroke-induced brain inflammation have in common? Potentially a lot, according to new research looking into how the microbiome directly influences brain inflammation. It ...

The traditional understanding of inflammation attributes the process primarily to immune cells responding to tissue damage or pathogen invasion. However, a growing body of research has revealed a ...

A new study in Biological Psychiatry identifies a new “biotype” for psychiatric disorders and lays the foundation for a biology-augmented diagnostic framework in psychiatry. This schematic contrasts ...

Not all depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia is the same. A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry identified a distinct subtype of psychiatric illness marked by brain inflammation, ...

A cruel consequence of advanced cancer is the profound apathy many patients experience as they lose interest in once-cherished activities. This symptom is part of a syndrome called cachexia, which ...