Leuven, 7 August 2024—The mechanisms underlying intellectual disabilities or autism remain largely unknown. Researchers in the labs of Prof. Pierre Vanderhaeghen and Prof. Vincent Bonin at the VIB-KU ...

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range signals.

The study builds on decades of research into dopaminergic neuron development and Parkinson's disease led by the late Prof. Ernest Arenas. His work laid important foundations for understanding how ...

Brain functions such as motivated behavior, reward learning and decision making are enabled by inhibitory projection neurons. Researchers now show that the protein MEIS2 plays an essential role in the ...

Study reveals how proteins direct nerve cell precursors to turn into specialized neurons. Brain development is a highly orchestrated process involving numerous parallel and sequential steps. Many of ...

Spread the loveIn a groundbreaking study, researchers have unveiled a crucial mechanism that demonstrates how the brain actively wires itself, influenced by mechanical forces within its environment.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The researchers also identified a second progenitor cell type that supports dopaminergic neuron development and survival. Dopaminergic ...

To better model how neurons fire and interact with glia, some scientists place the cells into a brain or grow them in an organoid. Others have produced little spheres of human neural tissue by ...

The mechanisms underlying intellectual disabilities or autism remain largely unknown. Researchers in the labs of Prof. Pierre Vanderhaeghen and Prof. Vincent Bonin at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for ...