New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

Chronic pain is a daily reality for millions of Americans, interfering with their everyday activities and quality of life. An ...

This important study describes a deep learning framework that analyzes single-cell RNA data to identify a tumor-agnostic gene signature associated with brain metastases. The identified signature ...

A structure deep in the brain, the hippocampus, plays a central role in forming new episodic memories (events and experiences ...

It’s not a new word or concept, but neurofitness has been gaining traction and generating hundreds of thousands of social ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

Researchers uncovered how estrogen subtly reshapes learning by strengthening dopamine reward signals in the brain. Rats ...

This valuable study uses mathematical modeling and analysis to address the question of how neural circuits generate distinct low-dimensional, sequential neural dynamics that can change on fast, ...

Contributor: Nina R. Eastes The idea of a “smarter brain pill” gets a lot of hype. But behind the buzz, a quieter story ...

The ability to analyze the brain's neural connectivity is emerging as a key foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) ...

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...