Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, according to a new ...

In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly.

Researchers at LMU have developed a human cell model that replicates key mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases—with ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that clusters of brain tissue derived from the cells of patients ...

Microscopy image of a human stem cell-derived hippocampal organoid. When the tissue carries an epilepsy-causing variant in the SCN8A gene, inhibitory neurons (seen in red) are disrupted, and ...

Accumulation of the protein tau in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. In a paper published in Cell Press Blue, researchers report a previously unknown mechanism that appears to ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

Seemingly unrelated diseases and conditions like Alzheimer's disease, obesity, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and ...

STING" molecular switch drives Alzheimer's brain inflammation. Blocking this switch protects synapses in new study.

A stress-related protein may help some brains resist Alzheimer’s decline, keeping memory and function intact despite damage.