Neuroscience

New technique could lead to long-lasting localized stimulation of brain tissue without external connections. Images show calcium ion influx into...

A research team at UC San Francisco has discovered an RNA molecule called Pnky that can be manipulated to increase...

The functional differences between autistic and non-autistic brains have been isolated for the first time, following the development of a...

The spinal cord transmits pain signals to the brain, where they are consciously perceived. But not all the impulses arrive...

Neuroscientists find that different parts of the brain work best at different ages. Scientists have long known that our ability...

Research from McGill University reveals that the brain’s motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed...

In the absence of food, neurons that normally control appetite initiate complex, repetitive behaviors seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and...

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have identified a new pathway by which several brain areas communicate within the brain’s striatum. Published...

Limp or firm, your handshake conveys subliminal social cues. Now, research reveals it also transmits chemical signals that could explain...

Highlighting a potential target in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests that triggering a...

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that navigational brain cells that help sense direction are as electrically active...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: researchers slice a brain into thin little sections and, just by measuring...

It's well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also "remember"...

A key part of the brain involved with decision making, the striatum, appears to operate hierarchically – much like a...

Researchers have for the first time successfully converted adult human skin cells into neurons of the type that regulate appetite,...

U.S. and Australian scientists have found the mechanism a novel gene uses to affect brain function and elicit behavior related...

There are no effective available treatments for sufferers of Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and devastating form of brain...

Our brains generate a constant hum of activity: As neurons fire, they produce brain waves that oscillate at different frequencies....

Mitochondria not only are the cell’s main power producers, they are also the chief cooks and bottle washers.When they get...

Scientists at the University of Sheffield have succeeded in using a 3D printed guide to help nerves damaged in traumatic...