After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

Among the newly identified brain cell types were some in the neocortex and the striatum region, which controls movement and certain other functions. Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious ...

Alzheimer's disease has long been thought to be irreversible, but new research using a mouse model offers hope.

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel travelling towards the brain becomes obstructed, causing neurons to die off. Strokes are ...

SAN DIEGO, Jan 28: Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have discovered a neural pathway linking the ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...