Mitochondria, which are found in every cell in the body, play an important role in brain function.
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Articles sur Neurodegenerative disease
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FTD leads to changes in personality and behavior. Understanding its genetic and molecular causes could lead to new ways to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
Inflammation and damage to the olfactory system from shingles, COVID-19 and herpes infections may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
Impaired insulin receptors in the blood vessels between the blood and the brain may contribute to the insulin resistance observed in Alzheimer’s disease.
Food allergies have been linked to behavioral and mood disorders, including depression, anxiety and ADHD.
Microglia, immune cells disguised as brain cells, are known as the janitors of the brain. Dialing up their usual duties just enough could provide an avenue to treat neurodegenerative disease.
Too much amyloid-beta in the brain has long been considered the cause of Alzheimer’s. New research suggests it might be the opposite.
Nonhuman primates like rhesus monkeys share certain characteristics with people that may make them better study subjects than mice for research on neurodegenerative diseases.
From figuring out where memories are stored to how sensory information translates to behavior, new technologies are helping neuroscientists better understand how the brain works.
Our new research with mice visualised how differently aged brains pump out toxic protein waste during sleep.
Across Canada and the United States, more than two million people are living with aphasia and its language and communication challenges.
Understanding when and how neurons die is an important part of research on neurodegenerative diseases like Lou Gehrig’s, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Our research suggests the multiplication of protein aggregates in individual regions of the brain, rather than their spread between regions, is key to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
An extract of a plant’s fruit in Nigeria could protect against seizure and prevent brain degeneration. It could therefore be studied further for the development of a new antiepileptic drug.
Insight on how a unique protein plays a role in cellular stress responses may provide more clues on how to treat diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s.
About one in six people who take the most common medication for Parkinson’s disease will develop addictive behaviours. We found whether this happens depends on a person’s unique brain structure.
Not all drug development needs to start from scratch. Sometimes researchers discover that a drug developed for one disease can be used for another. Here a cancer drug may show promise for dementia.
Many pieces leading to Alzheimer’s disease have been identified. To put the pieces together, one scholar argues that the government should launch a Manhattan Project-scale effort to find a cure.
A new type of drug blocks the destruction of neurons in the eye, preventing blindness. The researchers hope that the same therapy can be applied to other common neurodegenerative diseases.
Symptoms for Huntington’s disease typically only start to be experienced in mid-adulthood.
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Research Assistant Professor in Neuroscience, The University of Western Australia
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Graduate Student in Cancer Systems Biology, Rice University
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Senior Lecturer in School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
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Distinguished Florey Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Professor of Neurology, University of Michigan
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Cyrus Sturgis Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Neurology, Georgetown University
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University
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Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Cell Biology, Duke University
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Professor of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Research Fellow, Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
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Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
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Scientist in Cell Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
