Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal multiple potential causes from inflammation to a leaky blood-brain barrier.

Smith, who began studying the blood-brain barrier in 1981 while working at the National Institutes of Health, said there had been much confusion in the field regarding the ability of drugs to ...

The Searle Scholar award will allow Yang to pursue independent research that sheds new light on the blood-brain barrier, a ...

A harmful form of the tau protein, which builds up in Alzheimer's disease and similar brain disorders, can directly damage ...

EXPLORER total body PET scanner is creating a new way to visualize the protective barrier to the brain to reveal impacts from ...

Oregon State University researchers have discovered a way to get anti-inflammatory medicine across the blood-brain barrier, opening the door to potential new therapies for a range of conditions ...

Oregon State University researchers have discovered a way to get anti-inflammatory medicine across the blood-brain barrier, opening the door to potential new therapies for a range of conditions ...

Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Surprisingly, the protein shortage ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been one of medicine’s most difficult challenges, limiting our ability to treat conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease ...