When all your synapses aren’t firing: study opens door to new brain disease treatments
An EU-funded project gains better insight into how brain synapses malfunction, paving the way for better future treatments for neurodegenerative disease sufferers. Neurodegenerative diseases—an umbrella term for a range of conditions affecting the neurons in the human brain—impact millions of people worldwide. The most common of these diseases are Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, with Alzheimer’s and…