A new study from Sweden links long-term air pollution exposure to higher risk of motor neurone disease and faster progression ...

The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neuron disease, ...

Researchers from the University of Konstanz have studied how insect brains take in complex light stimuli and process them in ...

For a long time, the study of the brain has largely focused on neuronal cells. However, neurons develop and interact closely together in space and time with ...

Neurons in the wrong place in the brain can still carry out their normal functions, a new study finds, challenging long-held ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

Identification of a nitric oxide-regulated transitional state of Müller glia reveals a key mechanism enabling neuronal regeneration in the injured vertebrate retina.

The involvement of glial cells in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been mostly viewed as a secondary adaptive response to ...

Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) (“Alterity” or “the Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today issued ...

Infection with the neurotropic pathogen Toxoplasma gondii induced release of extracellular vesicles (EVs) with microRNAs ...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, is the most common type, accounting for up to 90% of cases. Long-term exposure to air ...