New research has shed light in the complex interplay between cell proteins, and how they impact on neurons in neurodevelopmental disorders and Alzheimer's disease.
May 15, 2024
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A pattern of brain activity that helps prevent us from getting lost has been identified in a new study, published in Nature Human Behaviour.
May 6, 2024
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an insidious disease. Patients suffer because their immune system is attacking their own nerve fibers, which inhibits the transmission of nerve signals. People with MS experience mild to severe ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Scientists have discovered that a type of fat accumulates as tissue ages and that this accumulation can be reversed through exercise. Researchers from Amsterdam UMC, together with colleagues from Maastricht UMC+, analyzed ...
Apr 12, 2024
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A surge of a neural-specific protein in the brain is the earliest-yet biomarker for Alzheimer's disease, report University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers studying a mouse model of the disease. Furthermore, the increased ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Your liver plays a vital role in your metabolism, the biological process that converts food into energy. We know that being overweight can negatively affect metabolic activity, but not exactly how. To better understand this, ...
Feb 26, 2024
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Nerve cells in the brain demand an enormous amount of energy to survive and maintain their connections for communicating with other nerve cells. In Alzheimer's disease, the ability to make energy is compromised, and the connections ...
Jan 29, 2024
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A new study reported that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, can infect dopamine neurons in the brain and trigger senescence—when a cell loses the ability to grow and divide. The researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, ...
Jan 17, 2024
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In a first, Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered that the production and regulation of mitochondrial organelles in the brain's nerve cells (neurons) becomes significantly impaired with the deletion of a gene called ...
Jan 10, 2024
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Researchers have discovered that a protein called phosphorylated α-synuclein, which is associated with several neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia, is also involved in the normal ...
Jan 9, 2024
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