Researchers found that excessively activated neurons over time, rather than decreased neuronal activity, cause aging-related decline in brain function in nematodes.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan ...

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

A Harvard team built a CMOS chip that can see the signals across 2,000 rat neurons, allowing the team to map over 70,000 ...

Researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large ...

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...

In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

Recent studies reveal strong links between air pollution and deposits in the brain, even in areas with low pollution levels.

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists ...

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years.

According to Jean-Rémi King, leader of Meta’s “Brain & AI” research team, the system is able to determine what letter a ...

This important study shows that the activity of hypothalamic hypocretin/orexin neurons (HONs) correlates with body movement over multiple behaviors. Sophisticated techniques and analyses showcase this ...