Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive memory loss and a decline in mental ...

We owe a lot to tissue resident memory T cells (T RM). These specialized immune cells are among the body's first responders to disease. Rather than coursing through the bloodstream-as many T cells ...

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

For decades, dogma dictated that the immune system consisted of two separate branches. Cells of the innate system respond rapidly to molecular patterns shared by a broad array of pathogens. Meanwhile, ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...

Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining information. This process enables us to understand information, learn and manage ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It develops slowly over time and affects memory, thinking, and behavior. Many people first notice small changes, such as forgetting names or ...

Studies suggest that starting in middle age, nerve cells in the locus coeruleus may get damaged by tau buildup, and that ...