The process of brain cell fusion has been recently implicated in the progression of central nervous system (CNS) viral diseases. This novel biological understanding has opened up a new field of ...

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron populations. A key objective of neuroscience research has been to delineate the ...

Scientists have created a super-map of the brain containing 30 million cells to trace the prenatal origins of diseases.

Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

All of this motion has subtle but dramatic effects on the sleeping brain that the researchers are only beginning to ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity.

An Oxford neuroscience professor explains how neuroscience can help us answer questions philosophers have asked for centuries ...

Most people want autism breakthroughs—but few know the crucial role brain donation plays in making them happen. Autism ...