This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience provides evidence that aging and injury lead to the buildup of senescent neurons ...

A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus coeruleus, affects how awake and attentive we are, how we ...

A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus coeruleus, affects how awake and attentive we are, how we ...

Individual neurons have branching extensions known as dendrites that can receive thousands of electrical inputs from other cells. Dendrites transmit these inputs to the main body of the neuron, where ...

This networking is how we learn, reason, form memories, and adapt to our world, and it’s made possible by synapses, tiny junctions dotting a neuron’s branches that receive and transmit input from ...

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.

A research team has demonstrated how the energy levels of individual neurons in the brain change during so-called spreading ...

Researchers have discovered how an ion channel in the brain's neurons has a kind of "molecular memory," which contributes to ...

Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

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