Scientists may have uncovered a hidden trigger behind Alzheimer’s disease. Instead of plaques being the root cause, amyloid ...

Neurons, specialized cells that transmit information across the nervous system, communicate with each other via projections ...

Researchers at Niigata University's Brain Research Institute have uncovered a new function of amyloid precursor protein (APP) ...

Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

Kevin Guttenplan, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), says astrocytes are like the “dark ...

For decades, textbooks told students the human brain contained 100 billion neurons. That figure, repeated so often it became ...

The researchers found that specific neurons increased their electrical firing rate just before certain components of speech, ...

Researchers in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo have discovered a ...

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In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study 1 of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...

Our brain prepares the body for an incoming meal before we even take the first bite. The aroma of food simmering on the stove ...