Learn about our Editorial Policies. The brain is a complicated network of connections and functions, but its inner machinations remain an enigma. In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years ...

Although neural cell competition is widely recognized for its role during early brain development, Prof. Wu's team demonstrated that this process continues to be vital throughout life. They ...

Dr Hameroff believes that consciousness happens at a deeper quantum level, arguing it comes from quantum processes inside microtubules (tiny structures in brain cells) rather than just from large ...

Somehow, the brain cells adapt and mostly function normally but are exceptionally vulnerable, self-destructing even under mild stress. The research team, which included colleagues at Case Western ...

Generating a complete multimodal cell census and atlas of the mouse brain through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis. This atlas combines single-cell transcriptomic ...

"Overall, this study helps us understand why certain brain regions are more affected by tau buildup leading to Alzheimer's disease," Dr. Maia said. "By identifying the cell types and gene ...