Severe stress during childhood can leave a "scar" inside brain cells, reveals new research. The damage makes a person more ...

Experiencing severe stress during childhood can make a person more vulnerable to anxiety, depression and other mood disorders ...

Neurons transmit information to the next cell by converting electrical signals into chemical signals. A critical step in this ...

A new study suggests that the human brain’s extraordinary abilities may depend not only on its vast number of neurons, but also on the unusual computational power of each individual cell. Credit: ...

Researchers studied LRRK2 mutations in Parkinson's disease. The mutations disrupted dopamine release in vulnerable neurons ...

Experiencing severe stress during childhood can make a person more vulnerable to anxiety, depression and other mood disorders when faced with ...

This valuable study describes a simple and robust approach for estimating information-limiting noise by splitting neural populations and comparing estimator values. The authors report more accurate ...

A small device that senses light and reacts like a brain cell could change how machines see and think. Built at the nanoscale, the structure does more than detect light. It processes information at ...

Researchers have discovered that a microscopic skeleton inside neurons does much more than hold cells together. It acts as a gatekeeper that controls what brain cells absorb and when they absorb it.

The longevity-linked APOE2 gene appears to protect brain cells by reducing DNA damage and helping neurons recover from stress. The finding could open a new path toward treatments that mimic APOE2’s ...

Brain stem cells cortical development works differently than scientists believed for 60 years: two parallel, fate-committed lineages build the cerebral cortex simultaneously from the first neurons -- ...

Cortical inhibitory neurons development takes three separate paths, a new Nature Neuroscience atlas reveals: some commit ...