Huntington's disease is a rare genetic, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disease, caused by CAG repeat expansions in the HTT gene, that is polymorphic on the healthy allele and contains more than ...

As aging bodies decline, the brain loses the ability to cleanse itself of waste, a scenario that scientists think could be ...

Researchers at the Advanced Research Unit on Metabolism, Development & Aging (ARUMDA), in the Tata Institute of Fundamental ...

At this point, there are several therapies which are coming along, a large trial called the ExRx trial, which included the nutraceutical, nicotinamide riboside has finished. The data are not yet ...

After a stroke, gamma oscillations disappear, and parvalbumin neurons lose their connections. Gamma oscillations are like the ...

In a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers revealed the structural underpinnings of memory formation across a broad network of neurons in the mouse brain.

Adverse genetic mutations can cause harm and are due to various circumstances. 'Jumping genes' are one cause of mutations, but cells try and combat them with a specialized RNA called piRNA.

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...