Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualisation techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold.

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they were a multicellular organism. The organisms in the study are the only ...

By observing what happens in flies, it gives researchers a good starting point to investigate why the same diseases cause dementia in humans. Now, Dr Niccoli is looking at why some nerve cells in ...

A natural compound found in everyday fruits and vegetables may hold the key to protecting nerve cells—and it's showing promise as a potential treatment for ALS and dementia, according to new ...

Chinese and French scientists have developed an extremely detailed blueprint of the crab-eating macaque’s claustrum, an ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

SPMS health costs are high, and higher still for younger patients and those with severe disability, a real-world study in ...

A UC San Diego study reveals that neurons adapt to new information through varying rules at synapses, challenging previous ...

Two small clinical trials revive hope for an old idea: Cells injected into the brain might replace the nerve cells that die in Parkinson’s disease. The studies, published April 16 in Nature ...