Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a potent immunotherapy approach for treating meningiomas, the most common ...

A groundbreaking clinical trial is testing whether specially engineered stem cells can help the brain restore its own dopamine production in people with Parkinson’s disease. Because the condition is ...

For many families, the most shocking part of a cancer journey is not the tumour itself, but the steady wasting that follows — loss of appetite, falling weight, thinning muscles, and the feeling that ...

Memories are thought to be stored in sparse groups of neurons called engrams. These are the cells that switch on during learning and can later switch on again during recall. In physiological aging and ...

Researchers identify "Otp" as a molecular switch in the brain that determines the balance of hunger and satiety neurons, shaping lifelong obesity risk.

A new brain implant trial aims to restore lost dopamine cells in Parkinson’s patients. Researchers are now testing it in ...

Aging doesn’t have to mean losing your past. Scientists have found a way to "reprogram" specific memory-holding neurons, restoring youthful learning and recall in mice.

For the first time ever, an anti-aging drug is providing hope for millions who suffer from this common condition.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, their study found that chronic compression triggers neuron death by a variety of mechanisms, both directly and indirectly. The ...

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This intricate ...

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