Neuroscience

When making simple decisions, neurons in the brain apply the same statistical trick used by Alan Turing to help break...

The discovery that the human brain continues to produce new neurons in adulthood challenged a major dogma in the field...

Using a process known as single cell sequencing, scientists at Karolinska Institutet have produced a detailed map of cortical cell...

Using advanced DNA sequencing methods, researchers have identified a new gene that is associated with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),...

The size of the human brain expanded dramatically during the course of evolution, imparting us with unique capabilities to use...

For 150 years, the iconic Broca’s area of the brain has been recognized as the command center for human speech,...

Scientists have made a major new discovery detailing how areas of the brain responsible for vision could potentially adapt to...

Human neural stem cell treatments are showing promise for reversing learning and memory deficits after chemotherapy, according to UC Irvine...

New research from scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) shows that the...

New brain research findings suggest long-term meditation may lead to less age-related gray matter atrophy in the human brain. Since...

The brain is protected by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this organ in...

Neurons in the brain are wired like a social network, report researchers from Biozentrum, University of Basel. Each nerve cell...

Together, obesity and Type 2 diabetes rank among our nation’s greatest health problem, and they largely result from what many...

There is no rest for a baby's brain - not even in sleep. While infants sleep they are reprocessing what...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self-organize...

Scientists have identified a gene that helps regulate how well nerves of the central nervous system are insulated, researchers at...

People who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with longevity also have larger volumes in a front...

Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different...

The brain’s alphabet is a mix of rate and precise timing of electrical pulses: the observation was made by researchers...

Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s or Parkinson’s are caused by defect and aggregated proteins accumulating in brain nerve cells that...