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Surgery and radiation are standard treatments for cancer that has spread to the brain.

A substantial proportion of individuals are left with poor residual functioning of the affected arm after a stroke.

Alzheimer’s disease disproportionately affects women and emerging evidence suggests there may be unique biological and lifestyle factors that underlie these differences.

Over the past decade, the number of new cellular structures that have been identified with critical functions for life has expanded considerably.

Over the past several years, zebrafish have proven to be a valuable model to study motor neuron degeneration and search for new treatments.

Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease that affects approximately 1 in 7500 individuals in the Western world.

The Northern Lights collaboration for better 2-photon probes will combine the expertise of four very different investigators and laboratories from Montana and Canada with complementary interests and skills to tackle a fundamental problem in imaging of the activity of the living brain.

Recent studies have shown that damage to the small blood vessels in the brain (cerebrovascular disease) may increase the risk for Alzheimer’s.