About The Study: In this cross-sectional study of contact sports athletes with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), years of contact sports participation were associated with substantia nigra tau ...
The death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra is the defining feature of Parkinson’s disease, but not all neurons in the region suffer this fate. Why do some wither while others survive ...
Deep in the human brain, a very specific kind of cell dies during Parkinson’s disease. For the first time, researchers have sorted large numbers of human brain cells in the substantia nigra into 10 ...