A new study, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, is leading to a new understanding of how immune cells ...

For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a tale of neurons, with every thought and memory traced to their electrical chatter. That narrative is now being rewritten as evidence ...

Alcohol does not simply relax the mind. It rewires it. With repeated use, drinking can splinter the brain’s carefully ...

Untangling how the human brain functions — and how neurological disorders develop — remains complex and challenging. While decades of work with animal models have broadened knowledge of the ...

One of society’s greatest medical challenges is to understand and develop effective treatments for disorders of intellectual disability (ID). Around 2–3 percent of the global population meet the ...

Read about the backgrounds and research interests of team members in Dr. Grinberg's Neurodegeneration and Sleep Pathology Lab at Mayo Clinic.

I still vividly remember the first time we observed neurons responding not to audible sound, but to concentrated, precisely ...

A new study has demonstrated how networks of spiking nanolasers could emulate a key principle of brain function: to imagine ...

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even ...

If you're bilingual, moral choices can often feel more urgent and emotionally charged in one language yet distant and rational in another. This raises an intriguing question: does language merely ...

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BACKGROUND: The disruption of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a central pathogenic event in many central nervous system disorders. However, the mechanisms regulating BBB function remain incompletely ...