New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

Blocking microglia prevents infant forgetting and improves memory in mice, suggesting they play a key role in memory ...

Neurodegenerative diseases, traditionally viewed as driven by neuronal decline, are increasingly recognized to involve significant immune dysfunction within and outside the central nervous system (CNS ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...

New research published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity provides evidence that alcohol use disorder triggers a distinct type of immune response in the brain. The findings suggest that excessive ...