Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Tiny, shallow grooves on the surface of the brain may provide new insight into how aging and Alzheimer’s disease affect brain ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Researchers from Monash University, in collaboration with the European Biostasis Foundation and Apex Neuroscience, have ...

The research revealed widespread disruptions in the activity of genes responsible for early embryonic genome activation, metabolic processes, epigenetic regulation, and chromatin structure in embryos ...

Scientists have mapped the molecular structure of glutamate receptors in the cerebellum for the first time using ...

A study of 20,000 anxiety disorder patients shows how negativity bias affects brain structure, cognitive function and mental health, supporting the view that mental illness is brain illness.

“Killing it” at work has long been associated with health risks that can literally kill, such as cardiovascular disease and mental health issues, with the International Labour Organization ...

More specifically, a 2021 study revealed that memory-related proteins can bind together to form droplet-like structures at postsynaptic densities. What makes these structures particularly intriguing ...

eLife Assessment This important study examined orientation representations along the visual hierarchy during perception and working memory. The authors provide results suggesting that during working ...

For the memory task we see a gradual increase in the exponent along the visual hierarchy (up to and including IPS0), indicating that a model with increasingly stronger similarity around oblique ...