Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that the nervous system's own immune cells help protect the spinal cord from age-related damage.

Examining post-mortem tissue from the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators identified what appear to be iron-containing microglia -- ...

FDG PET imaging measures glucose uptake in the brain. It has long served as a proxy for neuronal health—but is it? In the October 13 Science Translational Medicine, researchers led by Christian Haass ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most progressive autoimmune diseases that affect the central nervous system where the immune system attacks the myelin sheath that covers the nerve fibers and ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Researchers led by those at the University of Rochester, US, found that immune cells in the brain, known as microglia, act ...