Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Major depression is not only a crisis of mood, it is also a crisis of biology that reshapes the brain itself. As genetic tools sharpen, scientists are now tracing how inherited risk for depression is ...

New research by UCLA Health and UC San Francisco has uncovered why certain brain cells are more resilient than others to the ...

For the first time, lab-grown human brain cells were implanted into rats, and successfully altered their behavior by ...

Substance use disorders (SUDs) present a formidable challenge to public health globally, with recent statistics from the U.S.

Neuroprotection in ischaemic stroke commonly means a treatment that results in the preservation of brain tissue in the setting of either focal or global ischaemia. The nominal focus on neuronal tissue ...

A heart attack activates stress circuits in the brain that evolved for survival but can amplify inflammation, disrupt healing ...

The study, published in Genomic Psychiatry, identified how stress hormones activate specific RNA molecules called long ...

New research shows how some brain cells fight tau buildup in Alzheimer’s, pointing to internal systems that help neurons survive longer.

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

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

Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and we're starting to ...