Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric disorders.

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

Shuttle-based therapies are under active development for an array of brain conditions. “It’s now abundantly clear that we can ...

An alarming new study discovered toxic substances in the human brains, raising serious concerns about their role in the rising cases of dementia in the US.

Summary: A new study shows that the human brain organizes action-outcome associations in cognitive maps, much like how it maps physical space for navigation. These action maps are formed in the ...

An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his ...

When you think of formaldehyde, you probably picture building materials or embalming fluid, not your body lotion or hair conditioner. But this toxic chemical, long linked to cancer, also lurks in ...

Using mouse models and human cells, the team of neuroscientists has demonstrated that hallucinogens hold the potential to reshape communication between brain cells and the immune system. "Our study ...

But why? According to fascinating research, it’s not just about your brain predicting what comes next in a song – it’s about actual physical patterns forming in your neural circuits. “We propose that ...

Formaldehyde is a preservative that’s added to the products to increase its shelf life, but as the study says, “is highly toxic and classified as a known human carcinogen,” and was banned by ...

We found the coexistence of time-locked, non-feature-specific elevated responses and non-time-locked, feature-specific backward replay after visual sequence exposure in human brain. The ...

What’s more, recent research shows that some of these can cross the barrier designed to stop toxins from getting from blood vessels into brain tissues. Exactly if and how this might mess with ...