Negative differential resistance, sometimes called negative dynamic resistance (NDR), occurs when an increase in voltage ...

Research indicates that men and women experience pain differently due to biological, hormonal, and neurological variations.

In Alzheimer’s disease, Hameroff says, scientists don’t know whether the microtubules disintegrate and release the tau or whether the tau falls off because of a malfunction that weakens the bond. The ...

These beams can enhance or diminishing neuron activity. The patient lies on their ... seven people by targeting a part of the thalamus, a small structure in the brain’s center that relays sensory and ...

Researchers at Lehigh University have received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how ...

How do brains turn environmental inputs into motor outputs? This question, known as the “black box” problem, has left ...

Scientists have discovered that early smell loss in Alzheimer’s is caused by the brain’s immune system mistakenly destroying nerve fibers between the locus coeruleus and the olfactory bulb. The ...

With overlapping focuses on Biological Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Molecular Pharmacology, our research group takes the reductionist approach when dissecting biological processes at the ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This reliability allows the brain to recognize the same object each time it is seen. Our ...

In two new studies, scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have uncovered detailed blueprints of how certain ...