Designer compound may untangle damage leading to some dementias
In a study of mice and monkeys, National Institutes of Health funded researchers showed that they could prevent and reverse...
Read moreIn a study of mice and monkeys, National Institutes of Health funded researchers showed that they could prevent and reverse...
Read moreTauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease that are characterized by the deposition of aggregates of the...
Read moreNeuroscientists peered into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease and two similar conditions to see how their neural responses...
Read moreNematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause...
Read moreLooking at brain tissue from mice, monkeys and humans, scientists have found that a molecule known as growth and differentiation...
Read moreIn a study of mice, scientists discovered that a brain region called the thalamus may be critical for filtering out...
Read moreEvery brain cell has a nucleus, or a central command station. Scientists have shown that the passage of molecules through...
Read moreA healthy motor neuron needs to transport its damaged components from the nerve-muscle connection all the way back to the...
Read moreScientists searched the chromosomes of more than 4,000 Huntington's disease patients and found that DNA repair genes may determine when...
Read moreMany hormones and neurotransmitters work by binding to receptors on a cell's exterior surface. This activates receptors causing them to...
Read moreMutations in the presenilin-1 gene are the most common cause of inherited, early-onset forms of Alzheimer's disease. In a new...
Read moreLights, sound, action: we are constantly learning how to incorporate outside sensations into our reactions in specific situations. In a...
Read moreFor decades, scientists thought that neurons in the brain were born only during the early development period and could not...
Read moreLearning is easier when it only requires nerve cells to rearrange existing patterns of activity than when the nerve cells...
Read more"Now we may have a handle on how this tiny part of the brain exerts tremendous control over our thoughts...
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