Neurosciences

As he graduates from Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, a new scientist looks back on his journey. Lee Peyton, Ph.D., wanted to become a [...]

Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles on caloric restriction. The first article focuses on replicating the effects of [...]

Gene expression can amplify the risk of neurodegenerative diseases for patients, but researchers are still figuring out which genes have an outsized effect on risk [...]

Damage to brain cells in two separate neurodegenerative diseases — Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy — is not limited to specific parts of the [...]

In preclinical studies, Mayo Clinic scientists and collaborators have identified the molecular mechanism used by the brain's "cleaners" as they remove a problematic protein in [...]

Mayo Clinic discovery scientists are working to better understand the pathology of Alzheimer's, and are one step closer with research on a gene variant that [...]

The apolipoprotein E, or APOE, gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, as most [...]

Mayo Clinic researchers have found evidence that a type of resident immune cell in the brain helps protect neurons after seizures. Their results, published in [...]

Spinal cord injury is a life-changing medical event that affects almost 18,000 people in the U.S. each year. Medical advances are improving prognosis for these patients, pushing [...]

January 27, 2021 Mayo Clinic research findings indicate that the removal of senescent cells in aging mice improves cognitive ability in animals that already show signs [...]