For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lanzhou University has obtained ...

Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain that can be caused by infections or autoimmune reactions. Even when patients survive the acute phase, many are left with long-lasting neurological problems ...

By adding, removing, strengthening, or weakening synaptic contacts, our brain encodes new events or forgets previous ones. In AD, synaptic plasticity, the brain's ability to regulate the strength of ...

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

Researchers led by a group at the Institute of Brain Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and the Nagoya City University School of Medicine report that they have shed ...

A new protein sensor lets researchers see incoming brain signals, revealing how neurons process information tied to memory ...

Zacharie Taoufiq, Momchil Ninov, Alejandro Villar-Briones, Han-Ying Wang, Toshio Sasaki, Michael C. Roy, Francois Beauchain, Yasunori Mori, Tomofumi Yoshida, Shigeo Takamori, Reinhard Jahn, Tomoyuki ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...