FINDINGS: Using an innovative three-dimensional imaging technique, a team of UCLA researchers have tracked how Alzheimer's disease spreads through the hippocampus -- the area of the brain linked with memory -- in a pattern consistent with...

For the first time, researchers have identified a peptide that can spur cargo transport in nerve cells, a discovery that could help scientists better understand nerve cell function and test possible therapies for neurodegenerative diseases...

Researchers do not, however, find a link to death by suicide among alcoholics * The orbitofrontal cortex (ORB) may play an important role in risky decision making, impulsive behaviors, and disturbances in reward processing that tend to acc...

The adolescent ability to quickly develop alcohol tolerance allows for greater abuse of alcohol * Adolescent brains can compensate for some of alcohol's effects, including intoxication and hangover. * New findings indicate they are also le...

In one of the first known laboratory studies that explores memory deficits associated with a viral infection of the central nervous system, Mayo Clinic researchers have evidence that this infection can lead to memory loss late in life. The...

A method for targeting malignant brain tumors through inducing the cancerous cells to "commit suicide" has been developed by a team of researchers headed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor of biochemistry. Alexander Levitzki...

1. A Non-Cell-Autonomous Effect of IP3 Receptors Chihiro Hisatsune, Yukiko Kuroda, Takumi Akagi, Takashi Torashima, Hirokazu Hirai, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Takafumi Inoue, and Katsuhiko Mikoshiba The 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor type 1 (IP3R1)...

In the long run, a drink or two a day may be good for the brain. Researchers found that moderate amounts of alcohol - amounts equivalent to a couple of drinks a day for a human - improved the memories of laboratory rats. Such a finding may...

An elusive neurotransmitter pathway in the skin may have been isolated by University of Oregon researchers, a discovery that, if confirmed, would be a leap forward in understanding how temperature regulation occurs. In other words, they ma...

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement. Their most recent study, to be published in the N...