New research shows that astrocytes play an active role in nicotine-induced brain changes, challenging the long-held ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that reinforce repeated use ...

"Most of the studies on nicotine addiction traditionally focus on neurons, while neglecting the role of glial cells. Our innovative study demonstrates that astrocytes interact with neurons within the ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that significantly impairs cognitive function and mental health, affecting ...

Scientists have engineered a nanowire platform that mimics brain tissue to study astrocytes, the star-shaped cells critical for brain health, for the first time in their natural state.

The discovery of neuronal activity-dependent calcium transients in astrocytes has driven the conceptualization of these cells as computational units in the nervous system. Tripartite synapses, ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and preserves cognitive function ...

The link between Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid plaques is well documented, with innumerable studies exploring techniques and therapies to inhibit plaque formation, preventing development or ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...