Neurosciences

Neuroscientists on Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida have found an aberrant protein is a key toxic culprit in the most prevalent form of familial amyotrophic ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic scientists identify a type of cell that coordinates the immune response within the brain. For ...

Researchers studying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, have long been suspicious about the protein known as TDP-43. Now, in a new publication in Nature Neuroscience, ...

Mayo Clinic researchers Zhen Wang, Ph.D. and M. Hassan Murad, M.D. of the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery  ...

For patients with depression, genetic testing may offer more than just medication guidance. In a new paper, Mayo researchers link a genetic variation with antidepressant ...

One of the defining characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease is the presence of toxic amyloid plaques that build up in patients’ brains. Researchers have known that ...

Just over five years ago, the lab of neurogeneticist Rosa Rademakers, Ph.D., on Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida, discovered a genetic mutation that turned the ...

Researchers have long known that genetics play a role in causing the dementia of Alzheimer’s disease, but genes, it turns out, are only part of ...

A new director brings wisdom and passion to training bilingual physician-scientists. For Kendall Lee, M.D., Ph.D., being bilingual starts with language and extends to ...

In the world of scientific research, a decade can go by without major findings on what’s known about a disease. But over the past 10 ...