New research shows that older adults may compensate for age-related cognitive decline by enhancing activity in a specific ...

Brandeis researchers are embarking on a five-year study to examine activity in a small nucleus in the brain that could identify Alzheimer's disease at earlier stages than ever before. Assistant ...

The researchers recorded physiological arousal and locus coeruleus activity in 28 younger adults and 24 older adults using both brain scans and the measurement of pupil dilation in participants ...

The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates that the way the locus coeruleus is triggered enables us to switch from one state of concentration to another.This discovery could change ...

Because aging weakens cognitive skills, older people can struggle to read difficult social cues. A brain region involved in ...

Using specialized MRI scans to measure the intensity of neuromelanin, a pigment that gives the locus coeruleus (LC) its blue color, the research team observed an inverted U-shaped curve that ...

The researchers then used advanced MRI scans to measure the intensity of neuromelanin in the participants’ brains, which is believed to reflect the health and activity of the locus coeruleus. 3 ...

In a recent publication, a research group from the University of Cambridge (UK) has used a high power MRI scanner at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Center (Cambridge, UK) to visualize the locus coeruleus – ...

The locus coeruleus lies in the brain stem, just above the back of the neck – and contains around 50,000 cells, a tiny portion of the 86 billion neurons in the average central nervous system.

Andrew Luskin conducted research on the brain's peri-locus coeruleus neurons while he was a UW Medicine neuroscience Ph.D. student. A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the ...

The locus coeruleus is a region of the brain that is instrumental in coordinating our mental processing and is the primary source of noradrenaline in the brain, which acts to regulate arousal ...