Parkinson’s disease is a devastating condition whereby neurons in a specific region of the brain that controls movement lose functionality or die. This brain region is known as the substantia nigra — ...

Corresponding Author: Zhenyu Yue, PhD, Director of The Center for Parkinson's Disease Neurobiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Bin Zhang, PhD, Director of the Mount Sinai Center for ...

Researchers studying mice found that during deep non-REM sleep, breathing patterns become less synchronized with neural activity in brain regions. The findings provide new insights into sleep ...

The neurotransmitter dopamine influences the activity of a wide variety of brain areas. A deficiency of this substance can have drastic consequences: The death of dopamine-producing nerve cells in the ...

The male brain is guided by sex. No great surprise there, perhaps, except that in at least some parts of the brain this may have nothing to do with androgens, per se. A paper in the February 21 ...

The relay station of the brain, the substantia nigra, consists of different types of nerve cells and is responsible for controlling the execution of diverse movements. Researchers have now ...