Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

Summary: Scientists have built one of the most comprehensive single-cell maps of the developing human brain. The new BrainSTEM framework analyzed nearly 680,000 fetal brain cells to chart their growth ...

For more than a decade, there’s been growing proof that adult humans can form new neurons in the hippocampus, but scientists were still missing evidence of a missing link known as “neural progenitor ...

The human brain can do many amazing things, but self-repair is not one of its repertoire of abilities. Once neurons die—from ...

A group of scientists in Japan have now created a new version of vitamin K that could help the brain regenerate lost neurons. The ignites hope for future treatments to slow or even reverse Alzheimer’s ...

Neurodegenerative diseases remain some of the most difficult conditions to treat. Disorders like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s gradually destroy brain cells, leaving people with worsening memory, ...

From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...

In an age crazed with noise—notifications buzzing, playlists streaming, and traffic rumbling—silence is an endangered sensation. But new research indicates that silence may contain a secret that ...

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an artificial system respond to medication by learning, in real time, in a game-like ...

Peripheral afferent neurons - nerves that send signals from all areas of the body to the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) - are known to infiltrate and grow within malignant bone tumors ...