Can Posterial Cortical Atrophy indicate Alzheimer’s disease? Posterial Cortical Atrophy, sometimes called Benson’s disease, is a rare degenerative brain condition that affects the back part of the ...

A team of international researchers, led by UC San Francisco, has completed the first large-scale study of posterior cortical atrophy, a baffling constellation of visuospatial symptoms that present as ...

Maureen McGovern shared some sad --yet hopeful -- news about her health. The 73-year-old musician revealed that she has been diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) and is showing symptoms of ...

They show up as bright white spots when you get a brain MRI: lesions called white matter hyperintensities, or WMH. And their ...

Singer-actress Maureen McGovern says she will no longer perform live concerts after being diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy with “symptoms of Alzheimer’s and/or Dementia.” McGovern, who rose ...

A new study suggests that Alzheimer's disease possibly begins to manifest in some patients as a disease that causes vision problems and is often overlooked. But more awareness could lead to an early ...

A large number of studies over the past 20 years have quantified tau protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with Alzheimer’s disease, finding that levels of tau in AD patients are more than ...

A 31-year-old woman died from a rare form of dementia, and she could not understand the telltale signs to think that she had such a horrendous disease, according to her brother. Gemma Illingworth, ...

The findings suggest that the tool can be used to not only assess cognitive impairment in Huntington disease (HD) but also to detect brain atrophy patterns associated with cognitive status in these ...