Like retirement planning, where you build financial reserves for use when you are older, you need to save excess brainpower, ...

The moment a visually impaired girl realizes what's for dessert has melted hearts and gone viral on the internet. In the ...

Researchers have identified specific brain cells, known as concept neurons and location cells, that predict whether we will ...

A UNIGE team has discovered the genetic programs that allow motor neurons to retract from the spinal cord. This discovery ...

Parkinson's disease (PD), also known simply as Parkinson's, is a disorder of the nervous system that affects millions of ...

A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.

Noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus (LC) play a key role in the transition from a focused to an alert state. The ...

It’s easy to figure out what your brain looks like, but what is it actually doing? What does your brain’s activity look like? While we have many tools, like MRI, to understand brain structure, ...

Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) suffer from a variety of movement disorders caused by a breakdown of brain neurons.

Researchers uncover how liraglutide targets specific brain regions to suppress appetite and promote significant weight loss ...

What if we could resist compulsions? These irrational behaviours, particularly common in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), ...

Investigating ECM changes in the hypothalamus reveals mechanisms behind insulin resistance, offering insights into obesity ...