Drinking alcohol can also cause both short term and long term changes to your brain. Here’s what you need to know.

In order to understand brain diseases, neuroscientists try to untangle the intricate nerve fiber labyrinth of our brain.

Milestone in mapping the brain’s nerve fibre labyrinth In order to understand brain diseases, neuroscientists try to untangle ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

Billions of nerve cells send signals coursing through our bodies, serving as conduits through which the brain performs its essential functions. For millennia physicians thought damage to nerves was ...

A specific group of nerve cells in the brain stem appears to control how semaglutide affects appetite and weight – without causing nausea. The discovery, made at the University of Gothenburg, could ...

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These ...

A popular weight-loss drug may be changing how doctors treat obesity—but scientists are just starting to uncover exactly how it works inside the brain. A group of researchers from the University of ...

The human brain can do many amazing things, but self-repair is not one of its repertoire of abilities. Once neurons die—from ...

It's well-known that neural circuits help synchronize our biological clock with the day-night cycle. But just how exactly do ...

A USC study reveals that blood pressure fluctuations between heartbeats may harm brain health even when overall readings are ...

A research team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the Medical Center - University of Freiburg has gained new insights into the brain processes involved in encoding ...