Motor neuron disease (MND), often referred to by the name of one of its varieties, ALS, is a degenerative condition that ...

Neuroscientists have carefully studied how synapses only have access to their own “local” information, yet collectively they ...

As you experience or encounter new things, your brain must encode this information via the right neural networks at the right ...

Understanding and treating brain disorders such as tremor, imbalance, and speech impairments requires deep knowledge of the ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date — a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire ...

A recent study from the University of Missouri suggests that a compound found in certain fruits and vegetables may hold the key to treating neurodegenerative diseases. A natural compound commonly foun ...