A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has identified a promising strategy to treat brain ...

Loss and dysfunction of synapses have been linked to age-related cognitive decline and observed in Alzheimer's and other ...

Learn how a new laser-based therapy is giving patients with aggressive brain cancer a stronger chance at survival.

A new study identifies an extreme but effective way that brain immune cells can prevent the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified a specific enzyme inside immune cells that keeps Toxoplasma gondii, one of the most common brain parasites on the planet, ...

Cancer tumors hijack the vagus nerve to communicate with the brain, triggering a hormonal response that suppresses the immune system.

When myelin breaks down, white matter in the brain deteriorates, a change commonly seen with aging. At the same time, microglia, the brain’s primary immune cells, can shift from protective responders ...

Anti-inflammatory IL-10 has been shown to improve cognition and promote the growth of new neurons in the brains of old mice.

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...

A new AI-based method reconstructs spatial information about where immune cells were originally located in an organ, even after these cells have been removed from the tissue and analyzed individually.

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

The gut is home to a richly diverse community of microbes and nearly 80 percent of the body’s immune cells. This menagerie of gut-derived cells send signals along a bidirectional cellular highway, ...