The progression of Alzheimer's disease is poorly understood, but new research may have found how the plaques that cause it ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

A groundbreaking study reveals how neurons sense and transmit mechanical forces across their membranes—a key to understanding touch, movement, and development.

Thiorphan promotes neural regeneration after a spinal cord injury, according to new research published in Nature on Oct. 29.

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a vast network of nerves built into the walls of the intestine. While it is well known ...

A team led by the UAB Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) has for the first time identified the mechanism behind a ...

MIT researchers have come up with a new idea about memory that highlights the role of astrocytes, a type of brain cell that’s often overlooked. The human brain is packed with around 86 billion neurons ...

Scientists have made an enormous step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap -- scientifically speaking, a 'connectome' -- through the brain ...