BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists, in collaboration with international researchers, has achieved a breakthrough in ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental condition, is often associated with difficulties in social communication ...

Using brain gene expression maps from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, the researchers tested the degree to which Alzheimer’s risk genes explain the patterns of both actual and residual tau. This allowed ...

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Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau—a protein known to ...

A new study finds rare neural stem cells in the adult human hippocampus, suggesting some brains can generate new neurons into ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered how a cluster of thalamic neurons links physical pain to emotional trauma, ...

The brain creates the mind through flexible networks. While science maps this connection, significant questions remain, ...

A new study reveals how humans instinctively calculate who to gossip with by weighing popularity and social distance.