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New insights: Eye damage in Alzheimer’s disease patients

Researchers have taken an important new step in understanding the complex effects of Alzheimer’s disease on the retina, a layer of tissue at the back of the eye.

Pregnant patients with anxiety have altered immune systems

The immune system of pregnant women with anxiety is biologically different from that of pregnant women without anxiety, according to new research.

Acid glia in REM sleep: Stronger acid response in epileptic mice

Changes in our REM sleep patterns could potentially be used to diagnose the severity of epilepsy, a new study has suggested. Researchers showed that astrocytes — star-shaped glial cells that control the local ionic and metabotropic environment of the …

Developing nanoprobes to detect neurotransmitters in the brain

Neurons perform numerous complex tasks by communicating with each other via small messenger molecules called neurotransmitters. Accurately detecting them is crucial to understanding the functioning of our brain. To this end, researchers have demonstrat…

Scientists develop novel approach to enhance drug delivery for brain tumors in children

Researchers have developed a new drug delivery approach that uses nanoparticles to enable more effective and targeted delivery of anti-cancer drugs to treat brain tumors in children.

How to generate new neurons in the brain

Some areas of the adult brain contain quiescent, or dormant, neural stem cells that can potentially be reactivated to form new neurons. However, the transition from quiescence to proliferation is still poorly understood. A team has discovered the impor…

Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from happening, according to new research.

Lending a paw for defense veterans: ‘Clear evidence’ that assistance dogs help improve mental health

A new study focused on defense veterans’ mental health has found strong evidence that assistance dogs used in conjunction with traditional therapies provide the most effective treatment outcomes.

Mapping unknown territory

A detailed atlas of gene expression in the zebrafish brain.

Parental investment may have aided evolution of larger brains

A review of evidence from prior research provides new support for the possibility that the evolution of larger brains in some species was enabled through increased energy investment by parents in their offspring.