A decline in brain function interfering with daily living isn’t a normal part of aging. Dementia is on the rise, more than ...

Cerebral blood flow is essential for normal brain function and often perturbed in neurological disease. If one shines a ...

Gifu University scientists have uncovered how a brain-specific enzyme reshapes protein-linked sugar chains to facilitate the formation of complex glycans essential for normal brain function. These ...

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.

“I tested it three or four times before I believed it,” said Shigenori Inagaki of the discovery that enabled the breakthrough ...

Living brain tissue can now be made transparent, helping scientists see deeper neurons while keeping cells active.