Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

Midbrain neurons are susceptible to energy shortages as they age, which may explain their degeneration in Parkinson’s disease ...

Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body.

A research team led by McGill University has taken a close look at a long-standing idea about Parkinson’s disease and found ...

A new study in Nature Neuroscience identifies a biological mechanism that explains why repeated experiences become less ...

Head trauma, and many neurological disorders like epilepsy, stroke, or Parkinson's disease, for example, can cause nerve cell damage or death. It was long thought that neurons could not be regenerated ...

An international collaboration between researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, the University of Tokyo, and University College London has demonstrated that self-organization ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

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Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when performing an action and when observing another individual perform that same action, a process thought to help an individual ...

Scientists have pinpointed a group of cells in the brain whose activity could help explain the ability to share another’s pain. Why can we feel other people’s pain? A recent study in rats investigates ...