Researchers debunk what science believed about brain cell structure for 100 years, finding axons form repeating pearl-like ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Canadian researchers show that stress modifies the morphology of brain cells in mice, directly influencing the rodents' level of physical activity. Astrocytes in the lateral hypothalamus region of the ...

We can get silicon to "think" but the neuron can't be beat for efficiency. So, researchers worked to imitate it.

In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly.

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...

Webs of star-shaped cells called astrocytes connect distant parts of the brain, allowing long-distance exchange of molecules.

Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive type of brain cancer that is known to be very difficult to treat. One reason why this ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that clusters of brain tissue derived from the cells of patients with Alzheimer's disease may be used to evaluate how certain patients with ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that clusters of brain tissue derived from the cells of patients with Alzheimer’s disease may be used to evaluate how ...