Neurosciences

Providing an unprecedented increase in funding, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently doubled down on studies of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Researchers on ...

Epilepsy strikes without warning, when an electrical storm sweeps across the brain. Storm-chasing teams of researchers have adopted computational techniques to pinpoint and predict seizure ...

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 ...