/newsroom/taxonomy/term/9051/all en /newsroom/channels/news/lab-grown-brain-cells-help-uncover-new-targets-parkinsons-treatments-361562 <p>Scientists have uncovered a new link between the immune system and the development of Parkinson’s disease.</p> <p>Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ have discovered that an immune response plays a key role in how toxic protein clumps, known as Lewy bodies, form in brain cells and contribute to disease.</p> <p>This suggests factors that trigger the immune system, such as chronic inflammation, exposure to toxins, or prolonged stress may not only correlate with Parkinson’s, as previous research has found, but drive its development.</p> Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:33:56 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 314865 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/gene-discovered-cause-rare-severe-neurological-disease-264507 <p>Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a gene that regulates neuronal development through control of protein movement within neuronal cells. </p> Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:13:15 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26446 at /newsroom