Brain cells are constantly swallowing material from the fluid that surrounds them - signaling molecules, nutrients, even ...

Our brains age along with the rest of our bodies, and as they do, they produce fewer new brain cells. Now, researchers have ...

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This intricate ...

Visual experience triggers the formation of a web of neural connections in different brain areas in order to make sense of ...

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

Air pollution was associated with risk for developing motor neuron disease such as ALS and likely contributes to an ...

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine, along with other collaborators, report that lung adenocarcinoma can engage nerve pathways that link the ...

The discovery of a single neuron responding only to Jennifer Aniston revealed how the brain may use highly specialized cells ...

An efficient neural screening approach rapidly identifies circuit modules governing distinct behavioral transitions in response to pathogen exposure.