A cluster of rat neurons, grown on a chip in a Japanese laboratory, just learned to generate a sine wave on command. Across ...

The brain's 'garbage disposal' system falters with age, a new study finds, with long-lived neurons offloading clumpy, old proteins onto other brain cells. Many of those proteins are involved in brain ...

Researchers at Leipzig University have gained important insights into learning mechanisms in the brain of the fruit fly ...

Researchers discover that the protein Adgrl2 uses alternative splicing to switch between building brain synapses and sealing ...

Adolescence is widely thought to be a time when the brain trims away excess neural connections, refining circuits through synaptic pruning. New research now suggests this view may be incomplete.

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

Every stroke begins with a sudden interruption of blood flow in the brain. But what happens afterward—why neurons continue to ...

As children grow into adolescence, corresponding regions on the left and right sides of their brain function less identically ...

The world has changed since 1664, when French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes first claimed the brain was responsible for the sensation of pain. However, a key question remains: How exactly ...

What happens to your brain during a breakup? Discover 7 science-backed changes and practical ways to heal emotionally and ...

A new study just brought us closer to an answer, and what they found challenges some long-held assumptions about the aging brain's capacity for renewal. Using advanced single-cell sequencing ...