Cannabis appears to aggravate already decreasing nerve connectivity in young adults at risk of psychosis, a new study has ...

Early menopause may be linked to increased risk of Alzheimer's disease among women, according to a study led by researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto.

Synaptic pruning is a crucial neurodevelopmental process through which the brain refines its neural circuitry by systematically eliminating excess or weak synaptic connections. During early ...

Synaptic transmission is the biological process by which a neuron communicates with a target cell across a synapse. Chemical synaptic transmission involves the release of a neurotransmitter from ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content.

The brains of animals are the most complex structures on Earth. The human brain contains about eighty six billion nerve cells, or neurons, and an estimated two trillion synaptic connections, where ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

Early menopause and poor brain-connection health may interact to increase Alzheimer's disease risk in women, a study found.

Early menopause may be linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease among women, according to a study led by researchers ...