Because it can only be diagnosed with an autopsy, the neurodegenerative disease is difficult to pin in cases of professional athletes and ex-military who've suffered repeated head trauma. Dr. Julian ...

Movement is a complex process governed by a network of neuronal circuits spread across multiple regions of the nervous system. These regions, including the cortex, basal ganglia, brainstem, and ...

The superior colliculus (SC) has a topographic map of visual space ... After recording from midbrain burst-tonic neurons (in the interstitial nucleus of Cajal) to set an anatomic reference ...

The development of high-resolution light microscopy, sparse labeling techniques, neuronal tracking methods, and several advanced microscopic imaging pipelines have made it possible to map the entire .

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Using α-syn fibril-induced PD model, researchers aimed to restore the degenerated dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain by the wireless DBS nanosystem. After stereotactic ...

This important study provides new evidence on the role of norepinephrine (NE) release in the hippocampus in response to environmental transitions (event boundaries), providing a potential link between ...

Could inhaling xenon gas help fight Alzheimer’s disease? In the January 15 Science Translational Medicine, scientists led by Oleg Butovsky at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and David Holtzman ...

Tangle-like pathology is mainly observed in the brain stem and spinal cord, and to a lesser extent in the midbrain and cerebral cortex (Terwel et al., 2005). Age-dependent increase in total tau ...