Rodent studies presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting this week tie pathologies in the gastrointestinal tract or microbiome composition with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

The University of Rhode Island neurotoxicologist and dean came to the U.S. for college in the 1980s. 

Researchers describe how gene expression in different human brain regions is altered with age.

A study shows that different fibril formations in the brains of deceased patients seem to correlate with various Alzheimer’s disease subtypes. 

Susan Lindquist of MIT and the Whitehead Institute broke scientific ground on prions and heat shock proteins.

Dale Schenk, who worked to develop a vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease, has passed away at age 59.

Environmental magnetite in the human brain; prion structure takes shape; watching E. coli evolve in real time; learning from others’ behavior 

For the first time, researchers visualize histone deacetylase in the brains of healthy volunteers.

Targeting tau antibodies does not require effector function, researchers report.

Alzheimer’s disease–associated amyloid-β peptides trap microbes in the brains of mice and in the guts of nematodes, a study shows.