Scientists have cracked the code of the decision-making process in the human brain. The prefrontal cortex is the key to ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food ...

In addition, there are inflammatory cells and atrophy of brain tissue with dementia ... health-care workers and policy ...

Scientists develop groundbreaking dual-action drug RI-AG03 that targets toxic tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease, showing ...

Immune cells called regulatory T cells have long been known for their role in countering inflammation. In the setting of ...

A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

The new research reveals a novel mechanism for signal transmission in brain cells and helps answer an open question in neuroscience about how intracellular signals travel over long distances in ...

Patrick Pierre Michel, a cell biologist at the Paris Brain Institute who conducted those ... “Everything in the paper is beautiful, but the final verdict will be after a Phase 2 clinical trial.

Add spinach in the final 5 minutes of cooking ... lutein and beta carotene, which protect brain cells from damage and help prevent cognitive decline. Garlic, widely considered a superfood ...

Microglia, the brain's immune cells, exhibit altered gene expression and a weakened immune response as they age, potentially contributing to neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Understanding the influence that sickle cell disease and economic deprivation have on brain structure may lead to treatments and preventive measures that potentially could preserve cognitive ...