Persistent neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms affect a substantial fraction of
people after COVID-19 and represent a major component of the post-acute COVID-19 …

Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by synaptic loss, which can result from
dysfunctional microglial phagocytosis and complement activation. However, what signals …

Astrocytes are abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that perform diverse
functions in health and disease. Astrocyte dysfunction is found in numerous diseases …

Microglia are emerging as critical regulators of neuronal function and behavior in nearly
every area of neuroscience. Initial reports focused on classical immune functions of …

Maternal health during pregnancy plays a major role in shaping health and disease risks in
the offspring. The maternal immune activation hypothesis proposes that inflammatory …

Contemporary studies have completely changed the view of brain immunity from envisioning
the brain as isolated and inaccessible to peripheral immune cells to an organ in close …

Complement has long been considered a key innate immune effector system that mediates
host defence and tissue homeostasis. Yet, growing evidence has illuminated a broader …

Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating monogenic neurodegenerative disease
characterized by early, selective pathology in the basal ganglia despite the ubiquitous …

ApoE is the major lipid and cholesterol carrier in the CNS. There are three major human
polymorphisms, apoE2, apoE3, and apoE4, and the genetic expression of APOE4 is one of …