Neurons in the wrong place in the brain can still carry out their normal functions, a new study finds, challenging long-held ...

Your brain can still make new neurons when you’re an adult. But how does the rare birth of these new neurons contribute to cognitive function? Researchers know that new neurons contribute to memory ...

The mini review brings together emerging evidence showing that glial cells actively influence disease progression and ...

Your brain can still make new neurons when you’re an adult. But how does the rare birth of these new neurons contribute to cognitive function? Researchers know that new neurons contribute to memory ...

Adding rat stem cells to a mouse embryo resulted in a ‘hybrid brain’ in which the rat cells stepped in to restore function when the mouse’s sense of smell was removed, new research has shown. It’s the ...

A newly identified enzyme appears to control tau production, brain inflammation, and aging. Researchers at the University of ...

Your brain can still make new neurons when you’re an adult. But how does the rare birth of these new neurons contribute to cognitive function? Researchers know that new neurons contribute to memory ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

The involvement of glial cells in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been mostly viewed as a secondary adaptive response to ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures with nervous ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for ...