How to Use neurodegenerative in a Sentence

neurodegenerative

adjective
  • Alzheimer’s and many other neurodegenerative diseases are marked by a loss of brain neurons.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The quercetin in black and red grapes has been shown to protect against neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative disease that causes nerve cells in the brain to weaken and die.
    — Randi Richardson, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Doing so helped mice with a neurodegenerative disease live longer and move about more normally.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022
  • At this time, there is no cure for the progressive, neurodegenerative disease.
    — Jade Walker, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
  • One of them has to do with the relationship between neurodegenerative diseases and the sense of smell.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • The neurodegenerative disease is thought to be caused by repetitive brain trauma, which shakes the brain inside the skull.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The latter is a neurodegenerative disease with three types, one of which is Parkinson’s.
    — Michael Ellenbogen, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The 67-year-old lost both his father and sister to the neurodegenerative disease.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The neurodegenerative disorder, which causes tremors, affects speech and leads to motor skills, has no cure.
    — Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There was up to a 7% reduction in risk of death by neurodegenerative disease, such as dementia.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
  • That type of diseased brain cell is similar to the type found in Alzheimer’s and a host of other neurodegenerative diseases.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The therapies are part of an emerging field of research that tries to use the body’s own immune system to fight neurodegenerative diseases.
    — Fortune, 2 July 2021
  • Researchers showed that even slight blows to the head, when repeated often enough, could result in long-term neurodegenerative disease.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Maltepe believes these types of treatments could even be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases or help repair the brain after a stroke.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2019
  • If this can be replicated in humans, the approach could be used to scale treatment of neurodegenerative diseases or spinal cord injuries.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition where neurons in the brain slowly break down and die.
    — Freda Kreier, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Research is mounting that this type of entrenched loneliness is bad for our health and can even change our brains, raising the risk for neurodegenerative diseases.
    — Dana G. Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • More than a half dozen blood tests are being developed and tested to detect signs of the neurodegenerative disease in older patients.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • But when your dad lost control of his body because of a rare neurodegenerative disease, and died a month after diagnosis, your body forgets.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Rats trained in complex skills might be better models of the more subtle changes that occur in some neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Eli, 12, has a rare neurodegenerative disease that has caused seizures, blindness and an inability to walk.
    — Sarah Cutler updated July 16, Idaho Statesman, 16 July 2025
  • In the century since his work was published, researchers have sought to develop treatments or cures for the neurodegenerative disease, to no avail.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • But if someone has a neurodegenerative condition, the proteins dislodge from the neurons and can get into the bloodstream.
    — ABC News, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Bertrand passed away in October, at the age of 12, from his rare neurodegenerative condition.
    — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The cause was a neurodegenerative disease, said a brother, Richard Rothblum.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The brain is home to immune cells called microglia, which are activated in people with neurodegenerative disorders.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Hemoglobin could hold the key to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In this role, it's linked to fending off hardening of the arteries, as well as neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
    — Cynthia Sass, Rd, Health.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The samples are key to his award-winning research, which seeks a cure to multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases.
    — Michael Casey, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025

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