In a rat model of chronic heart failure, Xijiaqi Formula improved cardiac indices and rescued learning/memory deficits while ...

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients' skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the synaptic loss and dysfunction detected in the patients' brains, a new study ...

Astrocytes use the MEGF10 receptor to prune synapses in the striatum, a process essential for dopamine-driven motor learning.

Some scientists believe that toxic tau fibrils hop between synapses to spread throughout the brain, prompted by Aβ aggregates and overactive neurons. New imaging and biomarker data add weight to this ...

A new study reveals that the twin enzymes MNK1 and MNK2 play distinct roles in the brain, with one governing memory and the other social behavior.

The Alzheimer’s risk gene phospholipase C-γ2 has been thought to act mainly in microglia. Now, in a May 1 preprint on bioRxiv, researchers led by Jean-Charles Lambert, Julie Dumont, and Julien Chapuis ...

Research on a 3D microfluidic model highlights gut-brain interactions, offering new insights into inflammatory processes ...

Learning programs the brain. It is nature’s way to create simultaneously both “hardware” and “software” for the brain. Neuroscientists have long known that learning experiences change the functional ...

You spot signs of depression in someone you care about or in yourself and want a clear explanation. Research still shows no ...