Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

The next time you reach for a memory or make a quick choice, a storm of tiny signals races through your brain. Scientists can ...

UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic ...

Northwestern University researchers have reported a novel injectable nanomaterial that crossed the blood–brain barrier and ...

Science and medicine are witnessing the emergence of transformative technologies that can help change the way humans age.

VIB and KU Leuven researchers used spatial transcriptomics to map gene activity in motor neuron cell bodies and axons. In ALS ...

Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily ...

Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

This valuable study links psychological theories of chunking with a physiological implementation based on short-term synaptic plasticity and synaptic augmentation. The theoretical derivation for ...

Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven have identified a molecular process that allows motor neurons to maintain protein production ...