Autoimmunity and Alzheimer’s. People with autoimmune disorders in the UCSF (left) and Stanford medical systems (right) were ...

The blood-CSF barrier has been far less studied than the blood-brain barrier. Scientists have detected age-related changes in ...

Bottlebrush Barrier. The glycocalyx layer (purple, left) that coats brain blood vessels consists of numerous glycoproteins, ...

In the February 10 Nature Medicine, scientists led by Jorge Llibre-Guerra and Randall Bateman at Washington University, St.

At birth, people who carry a string of more than 40 CAG repeats within the first exon of the huntingtin gene are all but destined to develop Huntington’s disease. Yet, recent studies are converging on ...

Current: Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia Completed: Bachelor's of Medical Laboratory Science (BMLSc), University of British Columbia ...

Some scientists have long suspected that neuronal viruses such as herpes can hasten or even cause dementia. What about infections that don’t attack neurons directly? The COVID-19 pandemic offered ...

Most people with neurodegenerative disease have a mix of protein pathologies in their brain, but there is no easy way to identify them all separately. Indeed, clinicians are urgently awaiting blood ...

This noninvasive approach attempts to modulate the noradrenergic system of the locus coeruleus by stimulating the vagal nerve. It uses electrodes clipped on the outer ear to stimulate the auricular ...

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