A new study maps what healthy aging looks like in a unique brain region that’s often affected early by neurodegenerative ...

In a demographically diverse sample of healthy people, Cornell researchers found dramatic changes over the human lifespan in ...

Researchers have mapped age-related changes in the brain’s locus coeruleus (LC), a region linked to cognition and Alzheimer’s risk, by tracking neuromelanin, a pigment that gives it its signature blue ...

The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the so-called locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental ...

Researchers at the University of Lausanne have identified a novel role for the brain's 'locus coeruleus' in sleep and its disruptions. This brain region facilitates the transition between NREM and ...

The locus coeruleus, located deep in the brainstem, is known as the brain’s “blue spot” because it contains a pigment called ...