Brain activity and breathing rhythms decouple during deep sleep, offering new insights into Parkinson's and anesthesia.

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 — ...

In a recent study published in Progress in Neurobiology, researchers discover that the substantia nigra of individuals with Parkinson’s disease had a higher concentration of pheomelanin, as well as ...

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 ...

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 ...