We can replace joints, lenses, even organs—but not the brain. As neuroscience unravels the mechanisms of neurodegeneration, ...

Singapore has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, yet many individuals spend almost a decade in poor health ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say results of a new study are advancing efforts to exploit a new target for Alzheimer's ...

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

A new ‘biomimetic’ model of brain circuits and function at multiple scales produced naturalistic dynamics and learning, and ...

For decades, it was widely accepted that neurons relied exclusively on glucose to fuel their functions in the brain.

Scientists have discovered that breast cancer can disturb the brain’s daily stress hormone rhythms early in disease ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

A new study suggests that how neurons process energy may determine whether they resist damage or begin to break down.

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...