A new, more life-like physical model of microscopic nerve fibers called axons could speed up the discovery of medicines for ...

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Eric Dane’s death at 53 following a battle with a neurodegenerative disease is one that an increasing number of Florida residents are fated to share. Getting older is one of the ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and ...

Pamela J. Lein considers whether micro- and nanoplastics are accumulating in the brain and the question of whether they are ...

Your brain has its own elite defense team — and new research shows these "guardian" cells might be the real battleground for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and stroke. Scientists discovered ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and ...

In a recent viewpoint published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a group of authors evaluated emerging evidence linking nanoplastics to neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disorders and ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

A new single-cell atlas shows how epigenetic changes reshape brain cells during aging, revealing genomic instability, ...

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters reveals that many widely used signatures of criticality in brain data may be statistical artifacts. They propose a more robust framework that, when ...

AT MASS, GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF ...