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Researchers at CUMC and others have discovered how the most common genetic mutations in familial Parkinson’s disease damage brain cells.

No evidence to show that proteins can spread around within the brain or between animals and humans.

A protein associated with neuron damage in Alzheimer's patients provides a superior scaffold for growing central nervous system cells in the lab.

The first two stroke patients have been enrolled in a phase 2 clinical trial of a revolutionary new treatment for ischemic stroke.

New equipment at UC Santa Barbara is helping the university to do what it does best -- collaborate across disciplines.

Scientists may be a step closer to cracking one of the world's most compelling mysteries: the impossible complexity of the brain and its billions of neurons.

Every region of the body- from the toes to the jaw and tongue- has a particular processing area in our emotional center in the brain, the somatosensory cortex. These areas are flexible and can change.

'Gut vaccine' strategy may work for similar brain infections in humans Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere say that a vaccination they have developed to fight a brain-based, wasting syndrome among deer and other animals may hold promise on two additional fronts: Protecting [US] livestock from contracting the disease, and preventing similar brain infections in humans.

Neurons also demonstrate potential use in high throughput screening at GlaxoSmithKline.

Dr. Epstein has worked in public health and academia before joining the private sector.