A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

The human brain does more than simply regulate synapses that exchange signals; individual neurons also process information ...

The team’s advance changes this. “Ours register only 0.1 volts, which about the same as the neurons in our bodies,” says Yao.

A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced the creation of an artificial neuron with ...

Neurons' ability to change their behavior in response to new stimuli is what makes learning possible. And even neurons' ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future therapies for neurological diseases. “This gives us an important piece of ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

French and Canadian scientists reactivate mitochondria energy in neurons and successfully restore memory in mice with ...

Using lasers, researchers triggered optical illusion signals in mouse brains, uncovering how the brain fills in missing ...

A study by the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden suggests what every parent with children who scream all the time ...