A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Researchers have uncovered how losing the autism-linked gene PTEN in a specific set of inhibitory neurons reshapes brain circuits tied to fear and anxiety.

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. Acute nociceptive pain is induced by noxious stimuli, and is often a result of an intense or potentially damaging stimulus.

News & Views Published: 14 February 2014 TRP Channels Pain enters through the side door Emily R Liman Nature Chemical Biology 10, 171–172 (2014) Cite this article ...