People with clinical alcohol use disorder may experience more damage to their brains the more they drink, according to a Yale study. The findings, published in the Journal of Clin ...

A multi-disciplinary team has found that depriving lab mice of sleep can lead to a reduction in synapse diversity in the brain. In their study, published on the open-access site Current Biology, the ...

A new sequencing-based method uses molecular barcodes to trace synaptic connections among neurons. The approach enables large-scale brain circuit mapping and may help reveal how neural networks change ...

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Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...

IBM has helped create an electronic “brain chip” after a decade of research. If all goes as planned, it could be one of the greatest inventions of the computing era, and this is not an understatement.

Increasing physical fitness leads to a larger release of BDNF and better prefrontal cortex activity after a single session of exercise.

The human brain contains nearly 86 billion neurons, constantly exchanging messages like an immense social media network, but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and ...