All animals, including humans, experience stress. Not the type where you worry about paying bills, but metabolic ...

New research from the University of Wyoming reveals that the brain cells that control hunger may be far more adaptable during ...

When a cocaine addict relapses, it isn’t a matter of personal failure — it’s the biological result of their brain’s rewiring, ...

Florida Atlantic University has received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how an immune-related receptor in neurons plays a fundamental role in brain function ...

Neurons placed inside engineered living bodies built from frog cells self-organize, become active, and reshape movement ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...

While neurogenesis—the growth of new brain cells—typically slows with age, superagers produce new neurons in the hippocampus at twice the rate of healthy older adults. In contrast, individuals with ...

Understanding how the brain develops neurons and maintains cognitive function in old age could help researchers develop suitable drugs to treat Alzheimer's ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in ...

Kalonji oil, derived from the seeds of the Nigella sativa plant, has been used for centuries in traditional medicine ...