A new Northwestern Medicine study has introduced a novel machine learning method for analyzing how the brain organizes ...

Scientists at Newcastle University's Neural Circuits Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the Blue Brain Project ...

Early in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into ...

According to a 2024 report from The Lancet Commissions, almost half (45%) of dementia cases could potentially be prevented.

A brain imaging study found evidence of dopamine system injury in people with long COVID, offering a possible explanation for ...

Chronic iron accumulation renders neurons hypersensitive to oxidative stress, highlighting the importance of modeling ...

Summary: Astrocytes, star-shaped non-neuronal cells, serve as active gatekeepers of long-term memory stability. By ...

For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an enormous number of neurons. It also has an even more enormous web of connections ...

Glancing at the world in 2026, I wouldn’t exactly say that humanity is raising consciousness. Except in one sense: Some scientists and philosophers are, in incremental baby steps, coming closer to ...

Parkinson’s disease affects more males than females and they tend to have a higher risk. A new study in brain cells sheds ...

Parkinson's attacks a part of the brain called the substantia nigra. (Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) ...