Research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Aryn Gittis and colleagues suggests the most recognizable symptoms of Parkinson's disease — tremor and slowed movement — result from disruptions in different ...

While humans are acquiring new skills that entail performing coordinated movements, such as walking, playing an instrument or ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have ...

Most people have experienced the feeling: switching from one task to another, only to find the brain momentarily stuck in the old mode of thinking. Sometimes, even after realizing a strategy no longer ...

Summary: Researchers mapped the precise brain pathway that drives the nocebo effect, the biological phenomenon where negative ...

Researchers develop LinCx, a biological "wire" that creates precision electrical bypasses in the brain to restore function ...

In the weeks after a child is born, a rapid restructuring takes place in the paternal brain, based on a new study of brain ...

The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival ...

Communication begins long before children learn to speak. Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan have now uncovered how early brain activity helps build developing ...

Most people have experienced the feeling: switching from one task to another, only to find the brain momentarily stuck in the old ...

A new technology called LinCx allows scientists to create custom electrical connections between neurons with high precision.