For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside ...

Researchers have uncovered a shared brain cell breakdown mechanism behind Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, revealing how ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Juntendo University have identified a previously unknown structural domain in ...

For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside cells. But how these ...

PhD Defense: Unveiling Early Pathologies in ALS: Insights from iPSC-Derived Brain Organoids ...

Scientists have uncovered a key role for the protein “Frazzled” in building and maintaining the rapid neural connections that allow fruit flies to react in milliseconds.

Dopamine is often called the brain's "motivation molecule," but for me, it represents something deeper, a window into how ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure that entails the delivery of high-frequency electrical impulses to ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

In the lingo of the field, dopamine-producing cells are measuring a reward prediction error — the difference between the ...

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor seven early career researchers whose awards will be presented during Neuroscience 2025, SfN's annual meeting.