Treating the neurons and me — my mental states — in a synergistic way proved to speed up and enhance healing. It does for ...

By crafting an artificial brain-like environment with microscopic nanopillars, researchers have successfully guided neurons ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

“For us to feel pain in a situation where we shouldn’t feel pain, something must go wrong in the brain. There should be more firing or misfiring (of neurons) in certain regions of the brain.

Neurons in the brains of mice tell them to stop eating when they’ve had enough food – and since people probably have the same ...

Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

Mirror neurons received significant media attention in the 2000s and were painted by some scientists as the key to many of our advanced social abilities. However, many of the more significant ...

In a study, appearing in the journal Pain, they found that a brain region called the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) plays a key role in driving this phenomenon. When LPBN neurons were ...

In a recent study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers identified distinct neuronal populations in the hippocampus (HPC) responsive to sugars or fats. Survival depends upon sufficient food ...

leading to the degeneration and death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. To ameliorate motor symptoms in patients, a common clinical approach, deep brain stimulation ...