A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

Cognito Therapeutics, a neurotechnology company advancing disease-modifying therapies to treat CNS diseases, today announced ...

Neuroplasticity and sleep hygiene enhance learning, memory, and habit formation by refining cognitive maps and strengthening neural connections.

Childhood lead exposure is not quite yet a problem of the past. That said, there is much that caregivers can do to reduce the ...

In addition, microglia are part of a wide network of essential mechanisms keeping a proper brain function, including remodeling of synaptic connectivity and myelination. However, when exposed to ...

CD11c-positive microglia, which have an important role in myelination through IGF-1 production during early development, are poorly induced in infants with histological chorioamnionitis and this ...

Medically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MD Neurons are the cells in our body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. The ability to move or feel the world ...