The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the encoding and retrieval of memories, learning, decision-making and the regulation ...

How can neurons respond to optical stimulation without genetic or structural alterations? Turns out that a thin-layer carbon ...

One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...

The brain controls the release of glucose in a wide range of stressful circumstances, including fasting and low blood sugar ...

MSU researchers discovered that microbes begin shaping the brain while still in the womb, influencing neurons in a region ...

The team believes that these protective mechanisms allow the neurons to first survive the injury. They then adopt a “spontaneous plasticity,” or flexibility in their functions.

Children with autism have different brains than children without autism, down to the structure and density of their neurons, according to a study by the University of Rochester Medical Center, New ...

It also adds to the evidence that neurons in the body can take on specialized functions, "just like in the brain," says Yuki Oka, an author of the study.