Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized clinically by severe
cognitive deficits and pathologically by amyloid plaques, neuronal loss, and neurofibrillary …

Neurotrophins, including brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), are expressed in the
hippocampus, as well as their precursors, the pro-neurotrophins. The neurotrophins signal …

Commercially manufactured or generated through environmental degradation, microplastics
(MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) considerably contribute to environmental pollution. There is a …

The mammalian cerebral cortex represents one of the most recent and astonishing
inventions of nature, responsible of a large diversity of functions that range from sensory …

Neuronal subpopulations display differential vulnerabilities to disease, but the factors that
determine their susceptibility are poorly understood. Toxic increases in intracellular calcium …

Abstract Individuals with Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
exhibit cognitive impairments, social deficits, increased anxiety, and sensory …

Animals live in habitats fraught with a range of environmental challenges to their bodies and
brains. Accordingly, cells and organ systems have evolved stress-responsive signaling …

Episodic memories formed in early childhood rapidly decay, but their latent traces remain
stored long term. These memories require the dorsal hippocampus (dHPC) and seem to …

We investigated whether the gray matter volume of primary auditory cortex (Heschl's gyrus
[HG]) was associated with abnormal patterns of auditory γ activity in schizophrenia, namely …

Gain-of-function mutations in KCNT1, the gene encoding Slack (KNa1. 1) channels, result in
epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures (EIMFS) and several other forms of epilepsy …