Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...
Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when lysosomes, the cellular sanitation machines responsible for those tasks, break down or ...
Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or secondary (metastatic, spreading to the brain from cancer elsewhere). They can also ...
For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...
Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...
When probes are inserted into the brain for research or clinical purposes, the electrical activity of neurons is recorded.