Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo.

Jennifer Morgan, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, studies how the synapse malfunctions in devastating diseases such as Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia. Now, her lab ...

In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new study.

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

The brain runs on energy. Every thought, memory, or emotion sparks countless signals between nerve cells. That communication ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various ...

In their current study, which has been published in the journal eLife, the researchers investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result ...

Age at menopause may interact with factors related to the health of synapses, or nerve cell connections, to influence the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in women, a study found. Associations between ...