We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare ...

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

A new UCLA Health study links long-term residential exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos with a substantially higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. A study led by UCLA Health reports that p ...

Recent research has identified a specific biological mechanism that may explain why females experience more severe ...

When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

Pain sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new ...

Pain-sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...