Research reveals why Alzheimer’s brain damage doesn’t always lead to dementia, highlighting the role of protective brain ...

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising overlap between cancer genetics and Alzheimer’s disease, involving mutations in the ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...

A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

Artificial neurons could open a pathway toward computing that resembles human brain power.

When probes are inserted into the brain for research or clinical purposes, the electrical activity of neurons is recorded.

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have uncovered a surprising link ...

Some fish oil supplements may disrupt brain healing in people who have experienced repeated mild traumatic brain injuries, a ...