For over 100 years, scientists have agreed that discrete collections of brain cells fire off signals to other brain areas through a series of interconnected fibers. In a new study, researchers applied ...

Researchers examined anatomy of neurons from humans, mice and fruit flies. They discovered that the cellular structure of the brain is at a critical point, poised between two phases. New insights ...

Scientists found that blood markers of two saturated fatty acids along with certain omega-6, -7 and -9 fatty acids correlated with better scores on tests of memory and were associated with larger ...

Now, a growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of biologically male or ...

While the Milky Way has more stars than the brain has neurons, the manifold connections and interactions in the brain make it arguably more complex. Source: theartofsounds2001 | Pixabay The human ...

Fact checked by Jennifer Klump About the Author Dr. Smita Patel is an integrative neurologist and is affiliated with Endeavor ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

A multibillion-dollar project reveals critical moments during pregnancy, and even after birth, when the risk of neurological ...

Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...

Researchers have uncovered a shared brain cell breakdown mechanism behind Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, revealing how ...