Age can make memory feel like something that only moves in one direction. A name slips away. A route you know well turns ...

Visual experience triggers the formation of a web of neural connections in different brain areas in order to make sense of ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine may have found a link between high blood pressure and an overactive sympathetic nervous system.

Take a look at gameplay and more from Neuron Activation in this trailer for the upcoming frantic rhythm-puzzle game filled with micro-challenges. Push buttons, flip switches, shoot targets and more in ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures with nervous ...

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication with ...

Researchers found that neurons can use fat, not just sugar, to power the brain. When a protein called DDHD2 fails, this process breaks down and leads to serious brain problems. Scientists were able to ...

Spiking network model of adult-neurogenesis. (A1). Schematic of early olfactory circuit. M/T: mitral/tufted cells, GC: granule cells, abGCs: adult-born GCs, PCs ...

Scientists have built an artificial neuron that’s so realistic it fires, learns, and responds to chemical signals just like the real thing – a breakthrough that could transform computing, medicine, ...

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 ...