Researchers at Indiana University have identified a single enzyme in brain neurons that, when removed, sharply reduced the ...

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

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

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

Neuroscientists have long dreamed of watching thoughts unfold as they happen, without disturbing the fragile tissue that produces them. That vision is suddenly closer to reality, as glowing neurons ...

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...

One of the world's leading brain research labs is switching from fruit flies to a tiny, transparent fish. The goal is to observe an entire animal's brain at work.

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This intricate communication network is built of billions of neurons connected by synapses ...

Most people wouldn’t give Geobacter sulfurreducens a second look. The bacteria was first discovered in a ditch in rural Oklahoma. But the lowly microbe has a superpower. It grows protein nanotubes ...

A tiny implant placed in a Michigan woman’s brain is now carrying a very big question. Can a fully implanted, wireless device ...