In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists determine that schizophrenia-associated mutations in synapse-associated protein 97 (SAP97) cause an extreme increase in glutamatergic ...

The dentate gyrus is one of only two areas in the brain where new neurons are formed continuously in adults through a process called neurogenesis. When a new granule cell neuron is formed in the ...

The dentate gyrus is distinct from the entorhinal cortex, the hippocampal region affected in early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Previous work, including by the laboratory of senior author Scott A. Small ...