Findings could create new opportunities to treat and study neurodegenerative diseasesScientists discovered that sugar ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

UCLA scientists have developed advanced miniature 3D tumor organoid models that make it possible to study glioblastoma tumors in a setting that closely mirrors the human brain, shedding light on how ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron ...

Picture a mammal that can deliberately shut down most of its brain functions for most of the year, then wake up in the spring with its memories and in.

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

Findings from the Living Brain Project reveal how senescence processes involved in early brain development may also shape brain aging ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...