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 ...

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 ...

The peptide known as SNAP-8 (acetyl octapeptide-3) has intrigued the scientific community with a molecular design that suggests a potential to modulate neuromuscular communication pathways via SNARE ...

Filippo Beleggia, MD, PhD, didn’t believe his own data. As a postdoctoral researcher, he spent years in the laboratory of Christian Reinhardt, MD, PhD, at the University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, ...