Mill Valley, CA – August 2023 – The SynGAP Research Fund 501(c)(3) today announced a $130,000 grant to the Knowles Lab at Stanford University to support research on SynGAP-related intellectual ...

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA) has awarded a grant of 1 million dollars to Dr. Isabel Pérez-Otaño, who leads the Plasticity and Remodeling of Neural Circuits laboratory at the Institute ...

Seizures tend to get progressively worse over time in people with epilepsy, and a new study in mice suggests why that might be the case. Seizures appear to prompt the brains of mice to produce more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Animals that are socially isolated for prolonged periods make less myelin in the region of the brain responsible for complex emotional and cognitive behavior, researchers at the ...

Epileptic seizures worsen via the same mechanism by which practice makes perfect, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found. The research, conducted on rodents with ...

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA) has awarded a grant of 1 million dollars to Dr. Isabel Pérez-Otaño, who leads the Plasticity and Remodeling of Neural Circuits laboratory at the Institute ...

A new study published in Nature Metabolism suggests that intense endurance exercise, such as running a marathon, may cause a temporary reduction in myelin content in the brain. Using advanced magnetic ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cognito Therapeutics, a neurotechnology company developing disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, announced today publication of MRI imaging ...

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the brain and spinal cord caused by the loss of myelin. It affects more than 2.8 million people worldwide. The team led by Professor Pérez-Otaño at the Institute for ...