Researchers have discovered how newly created neurons depend on blood flow in the adult brain to travel from their site of ...

As summarized in Science, the study describes a unified “kiss-shrink-run” mechanism of synaptic transmission. This model ...

Johns Hopkins scientists found that neurons form tiny nanotube networks to transport toxins like amyloid-beta.

A new study suggests that cognitive loss in patients with brain metastases may be due to the interference that cancer produces in neuronal circuits. When cancer spreads in the brain, it changes the ...

Millisecond ‘kiss and run’ exchange – captured in a China lab on the world’s first camera equipped to do it – solves a 50-year-old debate.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive muscle wasting and limb ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

We finally know how Botox infiltrates neurons. The finding could aid efforts to develop an antidote for the molecule’s neurotoxic effects, which can result in paralysis or even death. Botox uses a ...

Researchers found that neurons can use fat, not just sugar, to power the brain. When a protein called DDHD2 fails, this ...