In jellyfish and sea anemones, neurons accumulate DNA damage while animals are awake and repair that damage during sleep.

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

We can replace joints, lenses, even organs—but not the brain. As neuroscience unravels the mechanisms of neurodegeneration, ...

Researchers have engineered a next-generation glutamate sensor, iGluSnFR4, capable of detecting the faintest incoming ...

This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...

Depression, one of the most prevalent mental health disorders worldwide, is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, ...

Neurons are famously fragile, yet some injured cells manage to hang on, stabilize, and even reconnect. That quiet resilience ...

Eighty years after total war transformed the continent, European countries are making big bets on new instruments of ...

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity.

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

Professional soccer players and American football stars are at much greater risk of developing dementia. What can we do to ...