A targeted drug therapy has shown potential to reverse cellular damage in Parkinson's disease by regenerating critical brain ...

New insights into how molecular changes in neurons impact brain development and disorders like autism and schizophrenia.

Scientists have uncovered how a protein helps build and maintain vital brain connections, providing insights into the ...

Inhibition of LKKR2 may rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson’s disease that is caused by a single genetic mutation.

Young and his team first confirmed that the proteins play several key roles in ensuring that synaptic vesicles which contain ...

New research shows that low-intensity repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can restore key synaptic structures ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition that affects a significant proportion of older people ...

Common Brain Parasite Infecting Up To 30 Percent Of Americans Disrupts Neuron Communication The discovery may lead to ways to diagnose and treat the condition that many people don't realize they have.

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire chatter all over the nervous system. Heart muscle cells do something similar ...

Serving as peers in the central nervous system, neurons make use of two communication paradigms, electrochemical, and molecular. Owing to their effective coordination of all the voluntary and ...

In 8 week-old mice, Pb primarily influenced pathways implicated in synaptic transmission, signal transduction, and learning and memory in both neurons and glial cells. The communication involving ...