Understanding how the human brain stores information and later uses it to complete various tasks has been a long-standing ...

Microglia, a type of brain immune cell, can gobble up amyloid beta protein, which clumps together into toxic aggregates ...

Dombeck suspects this type of drift affects episodic memories, in general, which are about specific personal experiences that ...

The first woman to ever use Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant has revealed how the revolutionary technology produced a shocking result that's left people on social media speechless.

Biomedical engineers have achieved a major breakthrough in organoid research, pushing us closer to a new era of ...

Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

A scientific team supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a new, ultra-high-resolution ...

Neurons exhibit remarkable morphological complexity, even within mouse brain images. These images provide critical insight into understanding neurological disorders such as Down syndrome and autism in ...

While a single study does not constitute absolute proof, "this is strong evidence in support of the idea" that stem cells and precursors to new neurons exist and are proliferating in the adult human ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, according to a study published July 3 in the journal Science. The findings tip ...

The adult brain still carries stem cells that grow, divide, and eventually become new mature neurons.