For decades, textbooks told students the human brain contained 100 billion neurons. That figure, repeated so often it became ...

Scientists restored stroke-damaged brain tissue in mice, raising hopes that recovery may begin long after a stroke.

Variants in the DHDDS gene cause a severe neurodegenerative condition, characterized by tremors, seizures, coordination and ...

Tones, oddball sounds and words can spark brain cell responses, hinting at nuanced processing without consciousness.

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular energy production—a finding that could have revolutionary effects across ...

Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans. Findings from the new ...

The Allen Institute is launching a $400 million initiative, the Brain Health Accelerator, to develop gene therapies for ...

Summary: Researchers unmasked the hidden mechanisms that allow the Ebola virus to survive undetected inside the human central nervous system for months or years. The international investigation ...