Neuroscience

A dietary supplement containing a blend of thirty vitamins and minerals–all natural ingredients widely available in health food stores–has shown...

Credit: Ross Neitz (Edmonton, AB) Most people have heard the old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”...

DURHAM, N.C. — A long line of research links poverty and depression. Now, a study by Duke University scientists shows...

Just as members of an orchestra need a conductor to stay on tempo, neurons in the brain need well-timed waves...

Credit: Lena Palaniyappan A team of scientists from across the globe have shown that the brains of patients with schizophrenia...

Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, and the “Saving Brains” partners today announced investments in nine creative...

Montreal, May 20 2016 – A type of brain cell known as microglia plays a key role in reducing the...

New research demonstrates the effectiveness of ketamine to treat depression in a mouse model of the disease and brings together...

PHILADELPHIA – A 24-hour rhythm of cellular detoxification in flies and mammals is coordinated by a neuropeptide that also drives...

As the human brain develops, neurons leave their birthplace and take a trip to distant locations. Once they reach their...

Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause...

Credit: Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold. It...

Credit: Sato and Woolley Researchers from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, have discovered a new factor in the escalation of seizures:...

In Alzheimer’s disease, plaques of amyloid beta protein accumulate in the brain, damaging connections between neurons. Now, researchers at University...

Persons with the serious disorder ALS, can have a genetic mutation that causes the protein SOD1 to aggregate in motor...

Kichitaro Nakajima, a graduate student at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Hirotsugu Ogi, Associate Professor at the Graduate School...

CINCINNATI – Researchers report in the journal Cancer Cell an experimental therapy that in laboratory tests on human cells and...

Choosing what shirt to buy, what to order for lunch or whether to go with the hearty red wine or...

A new addition in the growing number of studies using brain organoids to understand how the Zika virus leads to...

A new study suggests there may be an overlap between rare genetic variations linked to bipolar disorder (BD) and those...