A new model suggests that astrocytes might be used in computation, coordinating with neurons and connecting synapses in ...

Using a tool called Automated Meiotic Mapping (AMM) that was developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a team of ...

A 26-year-old childcare practitioner's headaches were "never taken seriously" and were brushed off as school stress or puberty when she went to see her doctor. A few weeks before her diagnosis, Niamh ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia and affects more than a tenth of Americans aged 65 and older.

UT Southwestern Scientists have identified the protein GADD45G as a master regulator of reactive gliosis, a damaging process ...

Our evolutionary advantage over our primate relatives may come down to accelerated genetic expression in just six types of ...

But a new area of research has recently emerged: the tempo of brain development. By mapping the birth of neurons in mice, his team has identified a factor in brain formation that had previously been ...