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The brain is estimated to contain 100 billion cells that form 100 trillion connections.

Declining cognitive activity is associated with a wide-variety of neurodegenerative disorders, brain injuries as well as with normal aging despite any clear pathological condition.

Dr. Talbot studies the dialogue between the nervous and immune systems.

The brain is an incredibly complex organ. Much of the brain’s complexity may be attributed to the circuitry that resides within.

A more streamlined way to diagnose ALS earlier is desperately needed as current methods can take up to two years and rely heavily on ruling out other conditions that share similar symptoms.

A few years ago, Dr. Parker and researchers in his lab genetically engineered worms that mimicked human ALS through motor neuron degeneration and paralysis.

Each muscle in the body receives electrical signals through motor neurons that will stimulate it to contract.

A group of viruses called enteroviruses can cause a variety of infectious illnesses that are usually mild with symptoms that may include fever, respiratory distress, flu-like muscle aches and rashes.

Normal cells have a “self-cleaning” process called autophagy that breaks down and clears out cellular waste, so the cell can function properly.

A biological marker, or “biomarker” for short, is a measurable indicator associated with a disease state that helps determine risk, severity and response to therapy.