University of Utah researchers at the Pulst-Scoles Laboratory have discovered that reducing levels of the STAUFEN-1 protein ...

The earliest known case of dementia in UK may help scientists and doctors alike better understand the awful disease.

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, who ...

Experiments on an ultra-rare genetic mutation that causes neurodegeneration in children have helped uncover a new mechanism by which brain cells die. A team led by scientists at the German research ...

Most cell surface proteins did not. But 16 did, including two found in the human dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra, a ...

Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

One particular protein is the final executioner of events that result in the death of brain cells during stroke, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center and their collaborators report. This ...

A common agricultural pesticide known as chlorpyrifos may play a substantial role in the development of Parkinson’s disease.

New research in mice suggests that chronic stress may cause the death of adult brain cells in the hippocampus while simultaneously inhibiting the birth of new hippocampal neurons. The technical terms ...