First, they found that in people with Tourette syndrome, there was a 50% reduction in interneurons, which are brain cells that help calm excess signals in the brain’s movement circuits.

Advanced single-cell analysis techniques revealed three key changes in the brains of individuals with Tourette syndrome: There were about 50% fewer interneurons (specialized brain cells that help ...

Boy with rare disease inspires mother to create big impact: Starting America's first Cockayne Syndrome Foundation Ukraine said 120,000 useless mortar rounds were sent to its front line after a ...

Smaller, more circularized mitochondria in glia of RTT cerebral organoids. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-71040-y ...

However, people with Down syndrome have higher levels of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) — meaning, their brain’s blood vessels naturally swell up with this protein.

A New York nonprofit has donated $2.2 million to UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester to help fund gene therapy research on a rare and fatal genetic disorder largely impacting children and young ...

They didn’t have brain injury. So concluded the recent National Institutes of Health clinical and brain imaging studies of about 80 individuals reporting “anomalous health incidents” (AHIs ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon researchers have documented for the first time a brain syndrome caused by inhaling fentanyl. The case study was published in the British Medical Journal.. The ...

Cockayne syndrome: New insights into cellular DNA repair mechanism. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 04 / 240410112659.htm ...