Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting millions of people worldwide. Published in the Journal of Neuroscience, new research from the ...

Major depression is not only a crisis of mood, it is also a crisis of biology that reshapes the brain itself. As genetic tools sharpen, scientists are now tracing how inherited risk for depression is ...

A holistic inquiry into how toxic tau impacts synapses provides a new take on the processes that lead to neuronal dysfunction ...

Researchers from the lab led by Prof. Joris De Wit (VIB-KU Leuven) have discovered an important clue to how connections between brain cells, known as synapses, mature. These new findings, published in ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...

A new study from the University of Liverpool represents a significant step forward in scientists’ understanding of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers have shed new light on how mechanical signalling in ...

Hardingham and his team also showed in vivo that these protective pathways were compromised in instances of acute neuronal damage, such as stroke. Because oxidative damage is known to be a feature of ...

Researchers are testing a new approach to repair early memory loss by protecting brain connections affected in Alzheimer’s ...