A recent drug discovery could eventually help the visually impaired and those suffering from multiple sclerosis, traumatic stroke, and Alzheimer’s disease regain some of their vision and mental ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

She had no symptoms, and it was only when an optician noticed some inflammation that there was any warning she had a brain ...

The project specifically focused on the hippocampus, a region of the brain that's not only crucial for memory but also ...

"While physical exercise is known to reduce cognitive decline, the cellular mechanisms behind its neuroprotective effects ...

Alzheimer's impacts almost one million people in the UK. Now, scientists claim that a particular exercise may help in ...

While reduced white matter (WM) volume and altered WM integrity have been reported in CAA, the response of oligodendrocytes – the specialized glial cells responsible for myelin production – to Aβ ...

Mikael Simons, MD, a neurologist and researcher at Technical University Munich and the Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Munich, Germany is the winner of the 2024 Barancik Prize for Innovation ...

This study presents convincing findings that oligodendrocytes play a regulatory role in spontaneous neural activity synchronisation during early postnatal development, with implications for adult ...