Some brain cells can resist the toxic processes associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Scientists ...

The Johns Hopkins-created maps provide higher resolution and better coverage of gray matter than previously published maps, ...

The neuron’s inner scaffold, once viewed as static support, now looks like a gatekeeper. Research findings are available ...

A new study shows exercise releases a liver enzyme that repairs aging brain blood vessels and restores memory in mice.

Our guts hold a kind of brain, known as the enteric nervous system; it is a network of neurons that extends throughout the walls of the gastrointestinal tract. This neural network can also function ...

In Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, a protein called tau can pile up inside brain cells and form toxic clumps. Those clumps help drive memory loss and other symptoms.

When HHMI Investigator Amita Sehgal started studying sleep 25 years ago, the topic elicited a yawn from most biologists. "In ...

A groundbreaking clinical trial is testing whether specially engineered stem cells can help the brain restore its own dopamine production in people with Parkinson’s disease. Because the condition is ...

Doctors usually focus on a person's average blood pressure, but research increasingly shows that how much blood pressure ...

A new study identifies an extreme but effective way that brain immune cells can prevent the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from ...

GLP-1 weight loss drugs have quickly moved from medical journals to household conversations, reshaping how Americans think ...