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Major depression is not only a crisis of mood, it is also a crisis of biology that reshapes the brain itself. As genetic ...

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.

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Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that ...

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

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

Arteries become clogged. Blood flow is restricted and oxygen is cut off. The result is a heart attack, the world's leading cause of death.

In a study published in the journal Cell, Postdoctoral Scholar Saurabh Yadav, Assistant Professor Vineet Augustine and their ...