A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

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

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

Scientists have found a possible explanation for why cancer patients are less likely to develop Alzheimer's. The enemy of our ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

A recent study in mice suggests that microglia, immune cells found in the brain, may play a role in early memory loss, or ...

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

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

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

According to the data, when microglia activity in the brain was suppressed, baby mice were better able to recall fearful experiences.

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a major mental disorder, affecting 1% of the global population. Patients suffering from BD frequently experience manic and ...