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

More information: Locus coeruleus norepinephrine contributes to visual spatial attention by selectively enhancing perceptual sensitivity, Neuron (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.04.001 . www ...

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

The locus coeruleus is the brain’s major source of the neuromodulator norepinephrine, and is also profoundly vulnerable to the development of Alzheimer’s disease related tau pathology. Norepinephrine ...

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 ...