Neurodegenerative diseases, traditionally viewed as driven by neuronal decline, are increasingly recognized to involve ...

“Most people probably think that inflammation in the brain is something bad and that you should inhibit the inflammatory system in case of illness. But inflammation doesn’t just have to be negative,” ...

Researchers rely on TSPO PET imaging to evaluate neuroinflammation in living people. But what does this signal actually measure? In a May 11 preprint on bioRxiv, researchers led by David Owen at ...

Published in Volume 1 of the journal Immunity & Inflammation on December 18, 2025, the article "Reinventing brain immunity in neurodegeneration ...

Microglia, immune cells of the brain, have recently gained recognition for their neuroprotective function; now meet the molecule that makes it happen. Researchers at University of Virginia Health ...