Alzheimer's is a devastating disease that results in memory loss and cognitive decline. It's caused by brain cells dying and the brain itself shrinking from a buildup of proteins. Millions of seniors ...

This energy is critical for maintaining the connections between neurons that enable effective communication. However, in Alzheimer's disease, this essential energy production falters, leading to the ...

A mouse pup is born with its hippocampus already buzzing with connections. Not a few tentative links between neighboring ...

Neuron networks in the brains hippocampus, the memory centre, are dense with connections that appear random, but as animals ...

Here, we report that glycolysis controls astrocyte-synapse contact. In the Drosophila larval dopaminergic (DAergic) circuit, blocking astrocyte glycolysis stimulated perisynaptic ensheathment by ...