More than seven million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and two-thirds of them are women, according to the Alzheimer’s ...

Home to billions of cells that form trillions of connections, the human brain isn’t just the body’s most important organ, it’s also the hardest to study. But an international team of scientists using ...

New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying ...

In tauopathies, scientists tend to focus on neuronal tau. They track its pathology and blame it for dysfunctional microglia. Now, researchers led by Celeste Karch at Washington University, St. Louis, ...

Researchers have identified that microglia first help spread Alzheimer’s disease pathology across the brain and then activate to limit its neurodegenerative effects. Researchers from the VIB-KU Leuven ...

Silent cells deep in your spinal cord may hold a surprising key to healing after devastating injuries and brain disease. A ...

One of the biggest controversies in neuroscience dates back to 1906, when Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal argued their opposing views on brain structure. 1 Golgi hypothesized that brain cells ...