Neurons exposed to chronic iron overload do not simply die on contact. Instead, they enter a weakened, primed state that ...

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center found that common dietary sugars fructose and glucose, despite having the same amount of calories, communicate with the brain through different ...

Mouse brain activity was used to recreate 10-second videos, offering a new way to study how vision is represented in the ...

Most of the tasks that humans complete daily entail carefully coordinating movements and tracking progress made toward a ...

Cell death in dementia has long posed a frustrating problem. Toxic proteins pile up inside neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and ...

A first-in-human brain implant procedure at the University of Michigan Health is drawing attention for what it could mean for ...

A new study found that fructose and glucose may look the same on a nutrition label, but the brain treats them very differently. In mice, glucose strongly reduced activity in hunger-promoting brain ...

A new study constructs the first 3D single-cell brain atlas of the lamprey, uncovering the 450-million-year-old molecular ...

Language-Specific Hardware: At the single-neuron level inside the hippocampus, individual cells are largely language-specific ...

Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as ...

U‑M surgeons implanted Paradromics’ Connexus device in a patient. The Connect‑One trial will track safety and communication ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute find activity in more easily accessible Purkinje cells in ...