For the first time, researchers have identified that inflammation—long associated with multiple sclerosis (MS)—appears to ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition where basic communication, social interaction, and behavior ...

Brain inflammation, while a crucial part of the body's immune response, takes on a detrimental role in Alzheimer's disease. Unlike the acute, short-lived inflammation that combats infection ...

Depleting them allows other T cells to infiltrate the brain, unleashing inflammation in the hippocampus ... IFN-γ produced by T cells killed fledgling neural stem cells, putting the kibosh on ...

Encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain often caused by infections or ... The high rates of psychiatric disorders following encephalitis could stem from a plethora of intersecting causes ...

A new study from the University of California, Berkeley has uncovered a molecular “switch” that may help control chronic ...

Brain inflammation, while a crucial part of the body's immune response, takes on a detrimental role in Alzheimer's disease. Unlike the acute, short-lived inflammation that combats infection ...

Using an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers have created a four-dimensional brain map that reveals how lesions similar to those seen in human MS form. These findings provide a window ...

Scientists provide new evidence that preventing brain inflammation is a promising approach for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Their findings, based on studies in cell culture, mice and ...

Air pollution contributes to nearly 7 million premature deaths each year, and its effects go far beyond the lungs.

Researchers at Texas A&M University College of Medicine have developed a new therapy that may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by several years. Their study, published in the Journal of ...

Among the stimuli that promote ER stress are ischemia, inflammation ... ischemia has been the experimental paradigm for perinatal brain damage over the past decades. The reader is referred ...