The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition that affects a significant proportion of older people ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising sugar-related mechanism inside brain cells that could transform how we fight Alzheimer ...

New research uncovers why acute pain fades but chronic pain lingers—revealing how the brain's pain-regulating system breaks down and pointing to new treatment possibilities.

Neuralink’s long-term vision is to develop a whole-brain interface capable of reading from and writing to neurons throughout ...

Scientists have discovered that forming a mental map of a new environment takes more than just recognizing individual ...

New research reveals how synaptic connections in the cerebral cortex can strengthen during sleep, offering insight into how ...

In the cerebral cortex, numerous neurons exchange information through junctions known as synapses. The strength of each ...

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an ...

Once in the hippocampus, memories and learning can be transmitted to different parts of the brain and retrieved whenever ...

Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...