A new study suggests that fear and the immune system are connected in previously unknown ways. Researchers found that the immune system can influence stress and fear behaviors by changing how brain ...

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have created a set of tiny ...

A new study reveals that chronic stress activates immune cells that travel to the brain, amplify inflammation, and heighten fear responses.

Mass General Brigham researchers found that interactions between immune and brain cells drive fear responses, but treatment ...

Mass General Brigham researchers found that interactions between immune and brain cells drive fear responses, but treatment with psychedelics like ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Basic Science, Yonsei University, and the Max Planck Institute have developed a ...

That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want to do science about animals including humans, sex as a biological variable ...

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type 2 is a congenital malformation of the cerebral cortex that is often associated with ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

From a cubic millimeter of tissue, scientists constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing ...

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