Tag: neurological diseases

Scientists have developed a tool to monitor communications within the brain in a way never before possible, and it has already offered an explanation for why Alzheimer’s drugs have limited effectiveness and why patients get much worse after going off of them.

Even mild concussions cause severe and long-lasting impairments in the brain’s ability to clean itself, and this may seed it for Alzheimer’s, dementia and other neurodegenerative problems.

Scientists have developed a way to see brain cells talk – to actually see neurons communicate in bright, vivid color.…

UVA researchers discover an influential type of immune cell in the membranes around the brain; These cells kick off powerful…