New research has revitalized interest in the longstanding link between brain trauma and dementia by focusing on the vascular ...

Recent research has identified glial cells as mediators of neurodegeneration, driving disease onset and progression. PerkinElmer | Cisbio’s Neuroscience: Neurodegenerative diseases and ...

Living a healthy lifestyle can help keep your brain strong This means exercising regularly eating a balanced diet and challenging your mind with activities you enjoy By doing these things you can redu ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells, leading to signs of ...

But the details remained murky, and a lack of Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in the knockout animals led many people to assume that these functions were irrelevant to neurodegeneration, says Bassem Hassan, ...

Exposure to B. bassiana fungus activated Toll receptors, leading to cell death throughout the fly brain. A new study ...

The Training Program in Neurodegeneration aims to promote the development and success of trainees at all levels (undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral) who are interested in pursuing careers in ...

The goal of our research is to understand the cellular and molecular basis of age-associated neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

Loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and accumulation of α-synuclein (α-Syn) aggregates are the major hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Deep fried food is a staple for many American diets. But new research has found that these foods could also be frying our ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly’s immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of ...