The progression of Alzheimer's disease is poorly understood, but new research may have found how the plaques that cause it ...

A new study published in Psychiatry Research provides evidence that certain brain cells are physically smaller in individuals ...

Adolescence, the life stage that marks the transition between childhood and adulthood, is known to be a vital period for the brain's development. During this critical phase, people's mental abilities, ...

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside cells. But how these ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and School of Advanced Computing have developed artificial neurons that ...

The authors used a Bayesian modeling framework to fit behavior and serotonin neuron activity to reward history across multiple timescales. A key goal was to distinguish value coding from other ...

New data reveals differences in gene activity in the brains of men and women. They start in the womb and evolved millions of years ago ...