“It stores all the deep-seated knowledge we learn about how to behave, how to be social and what’s normal ... of FTD; if there is a genetic mutation; age of onset and areas of the brain ...

(WNDU) - ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and FTD, frontotemporal dementia, impacts thousands of people each year. They may seem like two totally different diseases. However, one impacts the brain ...

The National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center unites the collections of the neuropathology cores at 27 NIA-funded AD Research Centers into a single database. It contains records on 13,000 brains, 3,000 ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an all-encompassing term for a group of diseases that impact the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes — the areas associated with personality, behavior and ...

Researchers know that a protein in the brain called TPD43 becomes corrupted in both ALS and FTD "They can’t produce a normal ...

Among all the primary sensory neurons, those innervating muscle spindles in the jaw-closing muscles are exceptionally located in the brainstem as the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (MTN), thereby ...

Sending soldiers to the firing range once a week for a month instead of four days in a row might be able to improve their long-term brain health. That’s one of the preliminary findings from Army ...

The Saint Louis University Department of Pharmacology and Physiology is made up of highly accomplished faculty and scholars who are widely recognized with awards, appointments to national committees ...

Victor Ambros received half of the Nobel Prize for his work on microRNAs. Here he talks about the teamwork – and the nematodes – that made the discovery possible. Listen to one of the 2024 ...