Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting millions of people ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

A team of researchers shows how proteins called 'chaperones' are vital in ensuring that neurons can transmit signals to one another. When this neurotransmission breaks down, devastating diseases such ...

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients' skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the synaptic loss and dysfunction detected in the patients' brains, a new study ...

Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting millions of people ...

A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to show how proteins called "chaperones" are vital in ensuring that neurons can transmit signals to one another. When ...

The literature states that in 1858, Rudolf Virchow introduced the term neuroglia as a descriptor. This was based on his observations of the biological connections between the brain and spinal cord. He ...

Most communication between neurons is mediated by the neurotransmitter glutamate. The finding that temperature influences how glutamate binds to neuronal receptor proteins to initiate signal ...

The chaperone Hsc70 (green) helps keep SNAP-25 in the proper shape so that it can help form the SNARE complex, enabling neurotransmission. AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers from the University of ...