New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis adds to growing evidence that helping brain cells ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered that neurons located in the wrong place can still carry out their normal ...

Scientists have found that your brain separates memories into “what” and “where/when” using two different groups of neurons.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. abstract brain cell A small population of nerve cells appears to be responsible for blood flow and neural activity across the ...

“I tested it three or four times before I believed it,” said Shigenori Inagaki of the discovery that enabled the breakthrough ...

Researchers have identified a new enzyme target that may influence multiple processes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, ...

New work in fruit flies uncovers an electrical trick that allows neurons to compute direction efficiently by juggling multiple signaling mechanisms. These findings could reframe our understanding of ...

Neurons are the most well-known cells in the brain but they are not the only type of cell in this organ. The other main type is the glial cells, also known as neuroglia. Glia comes from the Greek word ...

Cocaine addiction may persist because the drug rewires brain circuits through a protein called DeltaFosB. This buildup ...

In a study published in Science Advances, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers led by Kasey Brida and Jeremy Day, Ph.D., report that the secreted glycoprotein reelin is a marker for those ...

Historical views of the brain reflect the biases of the time. The industrial age spawned mechanical explanations for the ...