New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

I still vividly remember the first time we observed neurons responding not to audible sound, but to concentrated, precisely ...

Neurons in the brain are wired like a social network, report researchers from Biozentrum, University of Basel. Each nerve cell has links with many others, but the strongest bonds form between the few ...

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

Scientists developed a technique to grow cells that control voluntary movement, a discovery that could aid ALS and spinal injury research.

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

From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...