For decades, textbooks told students the human brain held roughly 100 billion neurons and that glial cells outnumbered them ...

Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

Researchers at Niigata University's Brain Research Institute have uncovered a new function of amyloid precursor protein (APP) ...

The researchers found that specific neurons increased their electrical firing rate just before certain components of speech, ...

Neurons, specialized cells that transmit information across the nervous system, communicate with each other via projections ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neurons that fire together sometimes wire together. PASIEKA/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Every day, people are ...

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study 1 of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...

A new study published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease has found that an overabundance of inhibitory connections in a ...

Kevin Guttenplan, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), says astrocytes are like the “dark ...

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...

If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and ...

Our brain prepares the body for an incoming meal before we even take the first bite. The aroma of food simmering on the stove ...