A recent study published in Cell Death & Disease suggests that specific cellular abnormalities in the brain associated with ...

Neuropeptides are brain and body signaling molecules that shape emotion, pain, metabolism, cognition, and immune function.

Neurons exposed to chronic iron overload do not simply die on contact. Instead, they enter a weakened, primed state that ...

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center found that common dietary sugars fructose and glucose, despite having the same amount of calories, communicate with the brain through different ...

Neuroprogressive disorders, particularly Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia, are increasingly recognized as multifactorial conditions involving chronic ...

Cell death in dementia has long posed a frustrating problem. Toxic proteins pile up inside neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and ...

A new study from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience researchers may help explain an enduring mystery about ...

Scientists tracking blind Mexican cavefish uncover a striking evolutionary reversal where existing brain circuits are rewired via dopamine to flip behavioral responses to light.

Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as ...

U‑M surgeons implanted Paradromics’ Connexus device in a patient. The Connect‑One trial will track safety and communication ...

Omaveloxolone (approved for Friedreich's ataxia) may help protect cells from stress and correct underlying dysfunction in SMA ...

A new study found that fructose and glucose may look the same on a nutrition label, but the brain treats them very differently. In mice, glucose strongly reduced activity in hunger-promoting brain ...