The physiological power and biological value of brain-derived neurotrophic factor is so significant that it is often referred ...

A new model of Alzheimer's disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex ...

The finding may open a whole new world in the study of Alzheimer's disease, said biophysicist Aneta Stefanovska.

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

Now, scientists have discovered a new mechanism by which these crucial supporting players detect and respond to neuron damage. Published in Nature Communications, the study describes how two key ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan or a sharp pin, you are sending sensory information via sensory neurons up to the brain. The flow of electrical ...

Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and ...

If your communications team was on the other side of the door when those decisions were being discussed, your company was missing out on insight that could have made all of those changes less ...

The researchers assessed levels of 828 different metabolites in key biological processes such as nerve cell communication, stress response and hormone regulation – processes that could contribute to ...