For decades the plaques and Lewy bodies were viewed merely as by-products of brain disease.
Substances that cannot cross this barrier are unlikely to make effective treatments for a brain disease.
Currently medical science can only determine the existence of the brain disease after death.
The debilitating brain disease influences the lives of millions of other people, particularly family members of patients.
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The report showed Seau had CTE, a brain disease linked head trauma, which can lead to depression.
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Her husband Ronald, who was the American leader between 1981 and 1989, also suffers from the degenerative brain disease.
"It shows us that you don't need to have had known or reported concussions to develop this brain disease, " Stern said.
Finding a treatment for Alzheimer's, a brain disease that progressively robs sufferers of their memory, is a priority of many drug makers.
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While he comes to look like the real-life Hughes as his character ages, he remains unconvincing as a man tortured by brain disease.
He was 62, and an autopsy found that he had the degenerative brain disease CTE, thought to be caused by head trauma.
The fatal brain disease was blamed for the deaths of 150 people in Britain, where there was an outbreak in the 1980s and 1990s.
There have been other cases, too, of patents taking Tysabri coming down with the rare and usually fatal brain disease called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
Organisers said it would be the highest jump to date in the island's skies and would raise money for research into a rare brain disease.
Rainwater is suffering from progressive supranuclear palsy, a brain disease referred to as PSP, Fortune reported in November, adding that he requires 24-hour care.
Brin became passionate about the cause in 2005 when he discovered he carries the flawed gene that gives him a 50% chance of developing the brain disease.
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He would, however, like to donate his brain to Boston University and its School of Medicine and Sports Legacy Institute, which studies brain disease and head trauma.
Jones said he hopes that research will help bring more understanding of the brain disease so future football players are informed when they decide to take the field.
The research is published in the journal Metabolic Brain Disease.
Mary Lou Jepsen of Google believes we can better understand brain disease, and brain functions like language learning, if we can massively increase the resolution of brain scans.
Earlier this month, Seau was determined to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative brain disease that can follow multiple hits to the head, the National Institutes of Health said.
Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have bovine spongiform encephalopathy is thought to be the cause of the fatal brain disease in humans that is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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The campaign seeks to re-educate Americans to the view that addiction is a brain disease and presents convincing evidence that drug and alcohol abuse causes neurological changes that can be seen in brain imaging studies.
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The EU scientific committee for vetinerary measures has warned that all sex hormones used in the US could pose a risk of cancer, genetic problems and brain disease, and claims children are most at risk.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Former linebacker Junior Seau's family sued the National Football League on Wednesday, claiming his suicide last May was the result of a brain disease caused by violent hits he endured playing the game, the lawsuit said.
He felt his worries were founded when he learned that star NFL linebacker Junior Seau -- who took his own life last May -- suffered from a neurodegenerative brain disease that can develop from concussions known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
On Jan. 9, the National Institutes of Health confirmed that the future Hall-of-Fame linebacker, who in May 2012 committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that has been connected to other athletes who died way too early after a career taking frequent blows to the head.
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The fatal brain-wasting disease is believed to be spread through contaminated cattle feed and cannot be passed from cow to cow.
Neither is it linked to any form of brain damage or disease.
The European Union imposed a worldwide embargo on British beef exports in 1996 following evidence that infected meat caused a fatal brain-wasting disease in humans.
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