University of Utah researchers at the Pulst-Scoles Laboratory have discovered that reducing levels of the STAUFEN-1 protein ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, forms an abnormal connection with an enzyme called ClpP. This enzyme normally ...

The earliest known case of dementia in UK may help scientists and doctors alike better understand the awful disease.

An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have characterized how cellular senescence—a biological process in ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, who ...

One particular protein is the final executioner of events that result in the death of brain cells during stroke, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center and their collaborators report. This ...

A common agricultural pesticide known as chlorpyrifos may play a substantial role in the development of Parkinson’s disease.

Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

New research in mice suggests that chronic stress may cause the death of adult brain cells in the hippocampus while simultaneously inhibiting the birth of new hippocampal neurons. The technical terms ...