After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, hinting at new targets for cardiac therapy.

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Among the newly identified brain cell types were some in the neocortex and the striatum region, which controls movement and certain other functions. Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

Alzheimer's disease has long been thought to be irreversible, but new research using a mouse model offers hope.

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...