Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

All starting from the same DNA, neurons ultimately take on individual characteristics in the brain and body. Differences in ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel traveling ...

The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

A newly discovered neuron-released enzyme could transform pain treatment and reveal deeper secrets of how the brain learns.

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle's Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying ...

Even newer “minimally invasive” ideas, like stent-mounted electrodes deployed through blood vessels, still require a catheter ...

The findings may give vital clues to the exact causes of neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia.

After you close your eyes, there is actually a certain point that brain activity falls off sharply, plunging until it reaches ...