Neural networks of the limbic system function in harmony with other brain structures to control a variety of physiological and psychological functions including emotion, behavior, motivation ...

EM, researchers elucidated the structure of key receptors integral to fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the rat cerebellum.

Columbia scientists have found that boosting the performance of a self-cleansing system in the brain helps flush amyloid and tau toxins from the brains of mice and improves the animals' cognition.

While the causes of Alzheimer’s remain unclear, scientists are increasingly recognizing the immune system’s role in the disease. STING, an immune molecule helping to clear viruses and damaged cells, ...

Persons with Parkinson's disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker.

Electric Fields May Help the Immune System Fight Brain Cancer Using an electric field device on the scalp – combined with immunotherapy and chemotherapy ... Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive ...

Another contributing factor, notes Gomes-Osman, is that hiking boosts neuroplasticity in the brain, which is the nervous system's ability to reorganize and establish new functional connections.

Toward recreating the brain’s immune system in a dish Advanced stem cell differentiation platform and synthetic biology enable in vitro production of human microglia cells and new opportunities ...

New research finds a brain region critical for navigation uses distinct neural activity patterns to encode multiple hypotheses that help distinguish between ambiguous landmarks. These ...

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...

Causes of hyperesthesia, treatment, prevention, and how to manage it. Central causes may include: Health conditions: Multiple sclerosis, spinal cord stroke, brain stroke, pain sensitivity caused ...

ABSTRACT: Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare disorders caused by an immune response against neuronal antigens expressed by an underlying malignancy. Anti-Hu-associated paraneoplastic ...