New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals.

An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition ...

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

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in spinal injuries. Their study, published today in ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops ...

A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

An enzyme known to regulate inflammation throughout the body has now been found to also act as a master switch for genes ...

Scientists have mapped the sensory neurons in bone for the first time, and identified their dual role in reporting and ...

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

A study on mice identified a group of neurons in the central amygdala region of the brain that display a unique pattern of ...