Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This ...

To shed new light on the contribution of different brain regions and neural circuits to specific mental functions, ...

The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the ...

Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have investigated nerve cell regulation. Mounting knowledge of regulation mechanisms could enable a better understanding of how the healthy brain ...

Following an injury, such as a traumatic crush injury, the peripheral nervous system is itself often able to effectively regenerate. This capacity of regeneration is mainly attributable to the Schwann ...

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

Canadian researchers found that stress in early life reshapes astrocytes, key brain support cells, leading to long-term ...

While there is a vast amount of information about the human brain and how it develops and works, much of the organ is still uncharted territory. But new research published in the journal Nature is ...

A team of researchers based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the United States) has tried to shed light on the ...