Researchers have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing the textbook understanding that ...

A research team has demonstrated how the energy levels of individual neurons in the brain change during so-called spreading ...

Each octopus arm has its own dense network of neurons, up to 350 million across all eight arms, that can work without the ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new method for selectively and reversibly breaking connections between brain cells—a ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed a new type of spintronic device that mimics how synapses work in the ...

Hevin reverses cognitive decline in mice by improving neuronal connections, without affecting amyloid plaque levels.

In Brazil, researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and collaborators from the University of São ...