A mouse pup is born with its hippocampus already buzzing with connections. Not a few tentative links between neighboring ...

Harvard’s decades-long study and Northwestern’s brain research both point to strong social connections as a key factor in healthy aging and sustained cognitive performance. Northwestern identified ...

During brain development, neurons can regulate their movement until they reach their final destination thanks to a "molecular switch" involving the protein Teneurin 4 (Ten4).

Credit: Mark Hersam/Northwestern University Printed artificial neurons can now send lifelike signals that activate real brain ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have successfully demonstrated that disrupting an eye structure long suspected ...

Neuron networks in the brains hippocampus, the memory centre, are dense with connections that appear random, but as animals ...

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips A few weeks ago, a research paper out of MIT (the college) crossed my desk ...

Scientists link a rising brain protein to memory decline and show it can be reversed in mice, offering a new target for ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

Scientists mapped human brain development in Down syndrome at a cellular level, discovering that stem cells "rush" to become ...

UCLA researchers created a single-cell map of the developing human neocortex in Down syndrome during a critical window of prenatal brain development, finding that the condition alters the ...