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

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

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

Health News: Parkinson's disease is an incurable and fatal disease of the brain or nervous system. In this disease, the nerve ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies ...

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

Patients with CaV2.1 channelopathies face severe and often debilitating symptoms, such as seizures, migraines, tremors, and ...

The next time you reach for a memory or make a quick choice, a storm of tiny signals races through your brain. Scientists can ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens. A new study by researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba and their collaborators have demonstrated that learning from both rewarding and aversive ...

Johns Hopkins scientists reveal that “inactive” GluD brain proteins regulate neuronal communication and open up new ...