WASHINGTON — Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary ...

Researchers have long known the brain plays a role in overeating and obesity, but a new study sheds light on just how ...

The processing of optical information in the retina of the eye, where the light-sensitive photoreceptors and the first nerve ...

Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

A New York University study has found that kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells. According ...

The study is particularly significant because it could help explain the association between these plastic-derived chemicals ...

Living tissue from the memory centers of people’s brains reveals sparse nerve cell connections that provide strong, reliable signaling between cells.

These results provide a highly detailed map for which brain cells may be most affected by ... levels and electrically insulating nerve fibers. In contrast, aging increased the activity of genes ...

New research shows that not all brain cells age equally, with certain cells, such as those in the hypothalamus, experiencing ...

Most treatments being pursued today to protect against Alzheimer's disease focus on amyloid plaques and tau tangles that ...