New lab-grown neurons behave like real brain cells, and they could solve AI’s biggest flaw with shocking simplicity.

There is such a specialized, complex network of neurons serving the gut that it is sometimes referred to as out second brain.

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Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

Brains with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) show DNA damage similar to Alzheimer’s. Study links genetic stress to ...

A study has found a previously known cancer-related drug can also help slow down the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but ...

Florida Atlantic University neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising role for a protein named "Frazzled" (known as DCC in ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine shows that the enzyme biliverdin reductase A (BVRA) plays a direct protective role against oxidative stress in neurons, independent of its role producing the ...

A new study identifies biliverdin reductase A (BVRA) as a crucial enzyme defending neurons from oxidative stress, acting ...

Ion channel voltage-dependence alterations can shape intrinsic homeostatic plasticity, even if operating faster than other intrinsic regulatory processes—where timescale separation would suggest its ...

Northwestern researchers were able to calm overactive neurons and restore neuronal activity, which could potentially slow the ...