Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, ...

Understanding the neurological systems that produce the world inside your head can help you to harness its transformative ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are transmitted between nerve cells using molecular containers called vesicles. Now, ...

Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" as its word of the year, defining it as the "supposed deterioration ...

For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...

One scientist may have cracked the code to curing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s—using a single molecular switch.

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement—they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision.