Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Everyone knows that exercise is good for the body and mind, but MIT scientists have made a revolutionary discovery between ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they ... known that a major molecule responsible for neuron-to-neuron communications is the neurotransmitter ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully ... Scientists have long known that a major molecule responsible for neuron-to-neuron ...

When I started taking a GLP-1 medication in October, I knew it would probably change a few things—our weekly dinner plan, how ...

We know that neurons are connected but which neuron connects to which ... from the synapse toward the cell body) or anterograde (forward, from the cell body toward the synapse).

The 2017 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to three scientists who, in the 1980s and 1990s, identified the molecular clock inside our cells that ... The human body does not like to stall between ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible ... send a unified command to another neuron. In this way, you can think of interneurons as traffic controllers, at the middle of the neurologic ...

Scientists have identified numerous alterations that occur in cells throughout the body and brain during aging ... There is a tight coupling of neuron activity and blood flow, with glial cells serving ...

The nervous system is an organ system that handles communication in the body. There are four types of nerve cells in the nervous system: sensory nerves, motor nerves, autonomic nerves and ...