Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Surprisingly, the protein shortage ...

Consciousness is at the centre of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in the brain? That is a ...

Researchers in Japan found that estrogen produced within the brain, called neuroestrogen, suppresses appetite and reduces ...

Researchers have unveiled the Duke Mouse Brain Atlas, a cutting-edge, three-dimensional map that captures brain structures from large regions down to individual cells.

Researchers identified a region of the thalamus that predicts and nullifies the effects of movement on visual perception, ...

A specialized model used by researchers is becoming a valuable tool for studying human brain development, diseases and ...

Brad Smith, of Arizona, has become the first person with ALS to receive a brain implant from Neuralink as part of an ongoing clinical trial.

‘There are many non-hallucinogenic analogues of LSD, but the fundamental difference is that all of those compounds are very ...

No full 3D mouse brain atlas existed that showed everything from the overall structure down to individual cells — until now.

A new 3D 'atlas' of the mouse brain promises to sharpen scientists' ability to measure brain changes and share findings across studies of diseases like Alzheimer's. The mouse brain atlas combines ...