A receptor long known for guiding brain development before birth also shapes how adults learn, determining how strongly the ...

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

A new study reveals that consuming caffeine after too short a night’s sleep affects memory mechanisms in the brain afterward ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

The brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated, scientists report in Nature Neuroscience.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville neuroscientist Keerthi Krishnan studies how genes, especially MECP2, shape brain ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

Seemingly unrelated diseases and conditions like Alzheimer's disease, obesity, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and ...

The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in ...

Researchers discovered that the liver hormone FGF21 signals hindbrain neurons to control appetite and metabolism during ...