Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” ...

Stanford Medicine scientists are generating a periodic table of sorts for psychiatric disorders, providing a better ...

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a key molecule involved in inflammation and plays an important role in both healthy and diseased states.

See, those are commendable habits, but they make up just one piece of the wellness pie: your physical health. If you want to feel and age your absolute best, it’s important to look at the bigger ...

They started by mapping a worm brain, which turned out to have about 300 neurons, and then moved on to a fruit fly larvae brain, with about 3,000 neurons. A neuron is an excitable cell that fires ...

Using advanced brain-mapping tools and single-cell RNA sequencing, researchers analyzed over 1.2 million brain cells from young (2-month-old) and aged (18-month-old) mice. The aged mice are ...

Scientists completed the first-ever diagram of a complete brain, mapping 140,000 neurons and over 54 million connections in a fruit fly. This breakthrough could help understand human brain ...

Before former president Jimmy Carter is buried in a private ceremony in Plains, Georgia, near the pond he could see from the porch of his house, his body will travel to the Georgia Capitol and the ...

using a new kind of brain-mapping technology, has uncovered which cell types may be the most sensitive to aging. That understanding could help with the development of new treatments to preserve ...

Based on new brain mapping research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists have discovered that not all cell types in the brain age in the same way. They found that some ...

However, trusting your brain to identify and prioritize key concepts is essential. Mind mapping shifts the focus from quantity to quality, helping you move beyond rote memorization to meaningful ...