Researchers led by Professor Yvonne Nolan at University College Cork have identified specific metabolic pathways ...

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Chronic alcohol use accelerates Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression by intensifying oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and ...

Researchers have synthesized enhanced vitamin K analogues that outperform natural vitamin K in promoting neuron growth. The new compounds, which combine vitamin K with retinoic acid, activate the ...

Dementia is one of the most feared conditions among the elderly, typically progressing gradually with age. A study has ...

Hormones are vital for maintaining normal body functions, but scientists are finding they can also powerfully - and sometimes negatively - affect our mood and mental health.

Blood flow and a hormone called ghrelin help new neurons travel to where they are meant to be in the brain of adult mice.

A 9-year-old girl walked slowly down the clinic hallway. 10 months earlier, her days had been dominated by seizures—sudden ...

Introduction Therapeutic exercise has been used to improve cancer-related dysfunction. Recent studies suggest that exercise ...

Neural stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells present in the adult central nervous system that can self-renew, and give rise to new neurons and supporting cells called glial cells. Activation of ...

This paper presents a valuable theory and analysis of the role of neurogenesis and inhibitory plasticity in the drift of neural representations in the olfactory system. For one of the findings, ...