While chemotherapy can be lifesaving, it also damages DNA and leads to cognitive issues known as "chemo brain." These effects ...

This study overall shows there is an interplay between the BBB and CB1 receptors on perivascular astrocytes that influences chronic stress resilience.

This picture shows a cerebral cortex of an embryonic mouse. The cell nuclei are marked in blue and the deep-layer neurons in red. The human-specific gene ARHGAP11B was selectively expressed in the ...

The research team grew “human organoids” (mini-organs of the gut, liver, and brain) from reprogrammed stem cells in a lab dish. They then injected these organoids directly into the amniotic fluid of ...

New research shows that the brain’s cortex can rapidly reorganize itself after losing neurons, allowing other nerve cells to take over lost functions.

Scientists say they've put together a molecular toolkit that could be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly including epilepsy, ...

The brain’s neuronal diversity and networked complexity is lost in artificial neural networks. But computational neuroscientists — experts on both brains and computers — say that’s OK. Although the ...

This enigmatic process appears to be controlled by the thalamus, a central region of the brain already known for its function as a filter between sensory signals and the cerebral cortex, the ...

One of the brain’s most important properties is its flexibility.Our cerebral circuitry changes constantly—every day, new links are made amongst the 86 billion individual neurons in our heads ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

WASHINGTON — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date — a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons ...