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Brain neurons

A high-salt diet may negatively affect cognitive function by causing a deficiency of the compound nitric oxide, which is...

Imaging of the brain

New cellular and molecular processes underlying communication between gut microbes and brain cells have been described...

group shot of Appel Alzheimers Disease Research Institute speakers

In the roughly 100 years since Alois Alzheimer first described the devastating neurodegenerative disease that now bears...

Dr. Hagen Tilgner. Credit: John Abbott

By now there’s no question that genetics contributes to many brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s, autism and depression...