Age-related changes in protein tagging and degradation may help explain how the brain declines over time and why diet can ...

Behind age-related cognitive decline lies a little-known biological phenomenon: our neural stem cells, those neuron factories, don't switch off randomly. Singaporean researchers have just ...

For decades, scientists have looked at various mechanisms responsible for the decline of our mental faculties as we age. A new discovery shows that the accumulation of a certain protein called the ...

Glioblastoma is the diagnosis that neuro-oncologists dread and patients fear, a fast-growing brain cancer that resists surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy and almost always returns. For decades, the ...

Shutting down the enzyme PTP1B helps brain immune cells clear plaques again, pointing to a potential new Alzheimer’s ...

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...