The locus coeruleus is emerging as a major new area of research interest, with many important functions such as regulating ...

UCSF scientists have discovered a stem cell in the young brain that's capable of forming ... the front and the back of the cerebral cortex, regions that in humans are responsible for learning ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ischemic stroke, only about 5 percent fully recover. Most others suffer from ...

Researchers at Gladstone Institutes and SanBio demonstrated that a stem cell therapy, effective even a month after stroke, restored brain function in rats by reversing hyperexcitability and enhancing ...

The modified stem cells used in the study have been in clinical development for more than ... She and others have found that cells in damaged brain regions can become overly active or hyperexcitable, ...

Subsequently, the rat stem cells differentiate and form the ... of rat neurons resulted in the formation of more organized brain regions compared to the control model. However, when these rat ...