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

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet have taken an important step toward ...

Researchers find that microglia function differently in males versus females, potentially having broad implications for how neurological diseases are studied.

The human brain is formed by a complex network of neural connections and most of them link neighboring brain regions, which ...

A breakthrough study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical information from their extremities to their nucleus, leading to the activation of ...

A breakthrough study sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical information from their extremities to their nucleus, leading to the activation of genes essential for learning and memory.

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

These are thought to include changes at the level of the synapses that connect brain cells. Research suggests an engram is not located in one specific location in the brain, but in multiple ...