From the smallest fragment of brain tissue, the intricate blueprint of the entire brain is beginning to emerge. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine are making several time-consuming aspects of ...

There are many kinds of dopamine neurons located in the uppermost region of the brainstem that manufacture and release dopamine throughout the brain. Recently published research reports a relationship ...

The number of people living with dementia worldwide was estimated at 57 million in 2021 with nearly 10 million new cases ...

The ventral nerve cord is the area of the fruit fly’s nervous system that controls most of its movement, also called its motor functions. There are a variety of different broad classes of neurons that ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, ...

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different cell types in the brain—astrocytes and microglia—communicate in response to ...

Feeding in mammals is controlled by a complex neural system. Although several key neural pathways related to total calorie ...

A new computational tool developed by researchers has uncovered genetic evidence directly linking Alzheimer’s disease to the ...

Depression is thought to affect over 250 million people around the world. It is a condition that is difficult to treat ...