A team of scientists from the University of Cologne's Institute of Biochemistry has made a decisive discovery about the ...

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

A collaborative French–Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

Resembling a seahorse, as its name implies from the Greek words 'hippos' (horse) and 'kampus' (sea monster), the hippocampus is a brain region crucial for memory formation. But until recently, ...

A team of scientists from the University of Cologne’s Institute of Biochemistry has discovered a significant finding about ...

Exploring the relationship between cancer cells and nerve cells, which can signal tumors to grow, could unearth ways to slow disease.

GFP knockin mouse tissue and ultra-fresh synaptonerosomes indicate that the postsynaptic density is a not a conserved feature of glutamatergic synapses in the mouse brain.

New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published this week in Nature. Led by researchers at the University of California ...

New findings support a controversial hypothesis about the biological role of sleep: Snoozing may be a way for the brain to clear clutter accumulated after a hard day of synapse forming and ...

Scientists have developed a new technique which allows them to see tiny clusters in the brain which are believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease. Researchers likened the breakthrough to “being able to ...

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.