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Understanding the complex communication between the brain and peripheral systems has become central to human neuroscience. Recent research highlights that ...

A specific extract from the root of the American ginseng plant protects brain connections and improves memory in aged rats.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common form of neurodegenerative disease and afflicts more than ten million ...

Oxygen isn't always a good thing. Of course, people-and most organisms-cannot live without it. But oxygen can also be quite ...

If you spend much time at all on social media, in particular TikTok, then you will have likely seen mention of the “salt ...

Neurologists specialize in diagnosing and treating conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system. While ...

A regulatory protein in astrocytes may explain how certain memories persist over time for learning and cognitive function.

Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland's family revealed he was suffering from early-stage CTE at the time of ...

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been considered a condition that cannot be reversed. Doctors have focused on slowing the disease because they believed the damage to brain cells could ...

A drug that raises levels of histamine – the chemical that causes allergy symptoms – in the brain boosts our memory by around ...

Rosa Chiara Paolicelli's team at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of Unil uncovered a new role for the TDP-43 protein in ...