For decades, textbooks told students the human brain contained 100 billion neurons. That figure, repeated so often it became ...

Researchers at Kanazawa University have identified a previously unrecognized mechanism by which structural changes in the ...

Though protein clumps associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's were discovered more than a century ago, researchers remain ...

A new study by UT Health San Antonio and Stanford University scientists brings us closer to understanding how the body detects different sensations such as pain, itch and touch. When a person feels ...

Utilizing both rat and mouse models of mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI), the research team isolated a novel, ...

A new study uses optogenetics to induce localized sleep in awake mice, reversing memory loss from sleep deprivation.

Understanding how the human brain stores information and later uses it to complete various tasks has been a long-standing goal of neuroscience and psychology research. Past studies have identified ...

HSF1 plays a pivotal role in maintaining neuronal health, and its dysfunction contributes significantly to the progression of ...

Structures of the human M-channel reveal a remarkably flexible assembly and the molecular basis for its subthreshold ...

Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial connectomes in mammals, involving the mapping of the network of neurons and ...