Can the brain function when its architecture is altered? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) demonstrates that neurons located in the wrong place can nevertheless ensure normal ...

Air pollution is associated with an increased risk for developing motor neuron disease and disease progression after diagnosis.

I still vividly remember the first time we observed neurons responding not to audible sound, but to concentrated, precisely ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

While diet changes have long been credited for long-term health benefits, it's not often for brain health. A new UNC study ...

Using an aging clock, researchers from the University of Cologne have used the Caenorhabditis elegans model organism to demonstrate that nerve cells age differently. They identified both the causes of ...

For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a tale of neurons, with every thought and memory traced to their electrical chatter. That narrative is now being rewritten as evidence ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in spinal injuries. Their study, published today in ...

By analyzing tissue from patients with Parkinson's disease, and animal and cellular models of the disease, a research team ...

Microsoft could launch the next-generation Xbox console sometime in 2027, AMD CEO Lisa Su has revealed during the ...

Knowing which lysosomal proteins are enriched in which brain cell types will help better understand contribution to neurological disorders.

By analyzing tissue from patients with Parkinson's disease, and animal and cellular models of the disease, a research team from the Institut de ...