Drs. Jake Ayres and Dave Borchelt publish a new review in Acta Neuropathologica on phenotypic diversity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In many types of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (fALS), mutations…
By Michelle Koidin Jaffee University of Florida neuroscientists have identified an underlying mechanism for how overexposure to manganese, a hard metal often used to produce steel, could induce dysfunction of dopamine neurons. The preclinical mouse-model study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, describes how impairment of dopamine transmission caused by…
Two neuroscience students were appointed to the T32 Research Training in Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Cognition in Aging, MCI, and Alzheimer’s Disease: Tara Cooper in Dr. Sara Burke’s lab, and Alejandro Albizu in Dr. Adam Woods’s lab. Directed by Drs. Marsiske and Woods, this training…
