Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body.

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

Scientists developed two new sensors that can detect brain cell communication in real time, tracking chemical messages ...

Study finds ultrathin tubes connecting brain cells that transport Alzheimer's proteins. The network changes months before ...

To stay in balance, the brain depends on two types of neurons: Excitatory neurons (in white), which increase activity, and inhibitory neurons (in black), which damp down signals. Scientists have now ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies. Making sense of this ...

“Looking back, many of us feel our lives have been characterized by different phases,” said Professor Duncan Astle, one of the senior authors and a researcher in neuroinformatics at Cambridge ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

In a collaborative study termed the MICrONS Consortium, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlaid their ...

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and ...