Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits seen in ...

Going by his words, understanding the human brain is far more complex than comprehending the entire solar system. Veteran ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Scientists have discovered how stress can lead to serious mental health problems. To better understand the function of type I ...

Thousands of Scots are set to take part in the five-week fitness challenge in a major fundraising drive to combat (MND).

Explore new insights into neurodegenerative therapies as researchers observe learning mechanisms in the living brain.

We can replace joints, lenses, even organs—but not the brain. As neuroscience unravels the mechanisms of neurodegeneration, ...

Scientists have discovered that breast cancer can disturb the brain’s daily stress hormone rhythms early in disease ...

For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

For most people, the loss of a sense such as sight is devastating, not only for intensifying vulnerability, but for ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...