Axonal degeneration and neuroinflammation are increasingly recognised as pivotal processes in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Axonal degeneration refers to the progressive ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that ...

A new study definitively reveals the existence of a system that had been theorized to clear metabolic wastes in the human brain. The study uses imaging in neurosurgery patients to show how brain's ...

Scientists have identified a protective brain pathway that may help slow the progression of Parkinson's disease by ...