New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Mindia Wichert has taken part in plenty of brain experiments as a cognitive-neuroscience graduate student at the Humboldt University of Berlin, but none was as challenging as one he faced in 2023.

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few brain cell types that continue to be produced in the adult ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been framed as a problem of misfolded proteins and dying neurons, but a new wave of research is shifting attention to something far more accessible: the blood that bathes ...

Experiments conducted on squid brains in the early days of neuroscience created misunderstandings about the workings of the human brain that have persisted for 70 years, according to a new study.

Children can live and even thrive after hemispherectomies due to brain plasticity, and split brain experiments reveal unique cognition. How Donald Trump’s approval rating has changed since ICE ...