In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted ...

In earlier studies, scientists already knew that a gene called ANK3 was linked to different brain-related conditions like ...

A team of scientists from the University of Cologne's Institute of Biochemistry has made a decisive discovery about the molecular basis of synapse formation in the central nervous system. They studied ...

When thinking, the human brain performs a true masterpiece of information processing: around 100 billion neurons communicate ...

WASHINGTON — The brain’s nerve cells communicate by firing messages to each other through junctions called synapses, and problems with those connections are linked to disorders like Alzheimer’s and ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of tumors. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) reports that ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the brain's structure and synaptic connectivity (i.e., the junctions via which ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California, University of Massachusetts, University of California Los Angeles, ...

A new model of memory — and a little-heralded type of brain cell — might explain why the human brain has such a huge storage capacity, researchers reported in the journal PNAS in May. The study looks ...

Scientists have built a prototype neuromorphic computer that thinks like a human brain and is faster than AI at learning new ...