Axonal degeneration and neuroinflammation are increasingly recognised as pivotal processes in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Axonal degeneration refers to the progressive ...

Scientists have identified a protective brain pathway that may help slow the progression of Parkinson's disease by ...

In recent years, scientists have identified hundreds of different genes associated with autism, a burst of discovery that has ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that ...

For over 60 years, metformin has been a first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes, yet scientists have not fully understood how it works. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, along with ...

Scientists have long theorized about a network of pathways in the brain that are believed to clear metabolic proteins that would otherwise build up and potentially lead to Alzheimer's and other forms ...