The appearance of similar medical conditions among staff working in the same hospital unit has drawn scrutiny from both employees and union leaders.

New research reveals that neurons can switch their migration strategy depending on whether they move on flat surfaces or through tight, crowded spaces.

Even if a child or adult recovers from encephalitis from a measles infection, Garcia Carreno added, there is a 25% risk of ...

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

memory formation hinges on connections between groups of engram cells, which are neurons thought to capture and store ...

In the developing brain, neurons must navigate through complex and often crowded tissue to reach their final ...

Senolytics are considered an anti-aging medication, and they’re currently used to treat a range of health conditions. And new ...

RIKEN researchers have discovered how a single mutation in one gene can simultaneously result in two symptoms—a severely ...

Researchers have discovered a new way that neurons act in neurodegeneration by using human neural organoids -- also known as 'mini-brain' models -- from patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration ...

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most detailed wiring diagram of a piece of mammal brain ever constructed ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

In general, we tend to think of stress as a bad thing. So, how can there be “good stress” that actually helps the body instead of harming it?