At the beginning of neurodegenerative disease, the immune cells of the brain -- the "microglia" -- take up glucose, a...
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Wearable sensors to monitor everything from step count to heart rate are nearly ubiquitous. But for scenarios such as measuring...
Cells that normally nourish healthy brain cells called neurons release toxic fatty acids after neurons are damaged, a new study...
Nature, Published online: 29 September 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02611-6In diseases called tauopathies, misfolded tau proteins form aggregates called fibrils. Fibrils from nine...
Opioids are a class of substances that control sensations such as pain and emotions in animals. While plant-derived opioid narcotics...
One example of a complex autoimmune disease is systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which predominantly affects women. As the disease progresses,...
A surprising discovery may offer a promising new direction in the study of multiple sclerosis and other diseases of hypomyelination...
Pioneering research shows that dopamine levels increase in response to stressful stimuli, and not just pleasurable ones, potentially rewriting facts...
Rutgers researchers have discovered some of the first molecular insights into how toxic proteins are regulated in neurodegenerative diseases such...
A new study by researchers at University of Illinois Chicago suggests that when the protein optineurin, or OPTN, is present...