Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for between 60% and ...

A team of neuroscientists in Australia has found that restoring copper levels in the brain dramatically reduced Parkinson-like damage in mice. The approach restored a protein’s function, and the same ...

The findings of two recent studies give hope that the disease could one day be reversed in humans—but experts warn that this ...

Cell models (pictured are neurons produced from human embryonic stem cells) allow studying how changes in the genes affect the shape and function of the cell. “One of the problems, however ...

Learn how lithium mapping and depth profiling can be achieved using the Massbox for mass spectrometry applications.

Hyong Kim, a graduate student in Jeanne’s lab, was studying this system when he saw that neurons in the third layer were responding to the same smell in “strikingly” different ways, says Jeanne. “It ...

This is a microscope image from a rat brain. The blue indicates cell nuclei, and the red indicates a molecular marker for neural activity. I compare the proportion of active neurons in young and ...