Researchers have developed a new model of mitochondrial epilepsy which captures specific features observed in patients. The new model may help provide better therapies and treatments for the condition.
A new study reports a potential new treatment for seizures which often occur in children with genetic metabolic disorders and people with liver failure.
By altering DON, an anti-cancer drug cultivated from bacteria originally found in Peruvian soil over 70 years ago, scientists believe they have made a safer and more tolerable form of the drug.
Researchers are tracking the cause of premature neuron aging in Parkinson's patients with a defective DJ-1 gene.
Researchers find a single gene which encodes two separate proteins from the same sequence of messenger RNA. The finding could provide new strategies for treating SCA6.
Summary: Researchers document not only the behavioral and cognitive effects of a single exercise session, but also the neurochemical and...
Researchers discover a novel factor which suppresses misfolding and aggregation of the huntingtin protein.
The key to performance and motivation lies within the ratio of glutamine and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens. The ratio of glutamine to glutamate relates specifically to stamina.
Researchers report some proteins turn into liquid droplets on their way to becoming the toxic solids implicated in some neurodegenerative disorders.
A study of the Xhosa, an ancestral African population, sheds light on the genetic origins of schizophrenia.
Researchers use iPSCs to create a disease in a dish model of Huntington's disease in transgenic nonhuman primates.
Combining an antibiotic drug that targets glutamine with the ketogenic diet helps kill glioblastoma cancer cells, reversing symptoms of the disease and improving survivability in mouse models.
