Neurodegenerative disease profoundly affects structures and pathways responsible for memory, cognition, and higher-order ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious neurological disease that usually causes permanent disability. Approximately 2.9 million people are affected worldwide, 240,000 in Germany alone. The exact cause ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists, who present new evidence that an armlike structure of mammalian brain cells may be a different shape than scientists have ...

Electrical impulses that result from the influx and efflux of ions across the plasma membrane of neurons. Programmed cell death, a form of cell death in which a controlled sequence of events (or ...