World Parkinson’s Disease Day is observed on April 11 around the globe to raise awareness about the progressive neurological ...

The geography of proteins and other chemicals is essential to understanding how the brain works—and how it goes awry. In Parkinson’s disease the substantia nigra neurons produce less dopamine ...

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is characterized by a host of recognizable cognitive symptoms, but many non-cognitive symptoms like ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is often recognized by its well-known symptoms—memory loss, confusion, and cognitive decline. But ...

The brain's cholesterol regulation and metabolism mechanisms may make some neurons more vulnerable to damage in the early ...

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a host of recognizable cognitive symptoms, but many non-cognitive symptoms like changes in sleep, anxiety and depression can be early signs of the disease.

(AD) is best known for causing memory loss and confusion, but early signs often include non-cognitive symptoms like sleep ...

Finally, after years of experiments, the team was ready to put all the puzzle pieces together. Working with slices of brain tissue, they transfected starter neurons with plasmids encoding the rabies ...

From each brain, they collected a sample of the dopamine-producing Substantia Nigra (SN), a region resistant to degeneration in AD, and the noradrenaline-producing Locus Coeruleus (LC), a region ...