Researchers report a protein that affects learning abilities in healthy subjects also plays a role in AIDS related dementia.
Researchers have identified key underlying biological processes that involve some of the hundreds of genes known to contribute to the risk of autism spectrum disorders.
Findings could open new avenues for designing drugs to treat ataxia, researchers report.
Researchers have successfully activated the brain's opioid receptors using optogenetics.
A new study provides a possible explanation as to what causes cognitive and memory problems associated with chemotherapy treatments.
A new study supports p38α MAPK as a possible clinical target for treating central nervous system disorders associated with uncontrolled brain inflammation, including TBI.
The researchers knocked out the Erk gene during peripheral nervous system development in mice. The researchers noticed the neurons of these knock-out mice were largely unaffected, but Schwann cells were "just devastated at every stage of development."
