A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

Inflammation is triggered by the immune system and is part of the body's natural response to injuries or disease. However, abnormal inflammation has recently been established as a hallmark for ...

Blocking microglia prevents infant forgetting and improves memory in mice, suggesting they play a key role in memory ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

Good managers set the tone for the whole team, encouraging positive behavior from everyone around them. In the November 5 Nature, scientists introduce a subtype of microglia that appears to do just ...

According to the data, when microglia activity in the brain was suppressed, baby mice were better able to recall fearful experiences.

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...