People diagnosed with various mental health disorders can sometimes start engaging in intense political behavior, such as ...

Scientists unveiled the largest brain map ever made, revealing over 200,000 cells and 500 million connections.

A cruel consequence of advanced cancer is the profound apathy many patients experience as they lose interest in ...

For the first time, scientists have generated a functional neural pathway for sensing pain in a dish. This could help unravel ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans' most prominent nervous pathways for sensing ...

Immediate use for the newly developed assembloids could include studying neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Touch heals both ways. As hands soothe tense muscles, the therapist’s brain lights up—mirror neurons fire, empathy deepens, ...

The left panel depicts direct fear, in which a mouse experiences an immediate threat such as a predator or footshocks, ...

In a new study published in Engineering, researchers led by Xinxia Cai, Zhaojie Xu, and Yirong Wu explore the latest progress ...

The data convincingly show that the transcription factor Sp1 regulates ephrin-mediated axon guidance in the spinal cord. Although the authors show that Sp1 and its co-activators p300 and CBP are ...

Distribution of Ranvier nodes along myelinated axons is a critical determinant of conduction velocity, significantly influencing spike arrival timing and hence neural circuit function. The patterns of ...