A new study found that sedentary behavior may increase Alzheimer's disease risk in aging adults—regardless of how much they ...

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have highlighted the deleterious role of high phosphate intake in hypertension by means of ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

Columbia scientists have found that boosting the performance of a self-cleansing system in the brain helps flush amyloid and tau toxins from the brains of mice and improves the animals' cognition.

The interpretation and analysis of MRI of the neonatal brain benefit from a reduction in partial volume averaging that can be achieved with high spatial resolution. Unfortunately, direct acquisition ...

A brain-computer interface (BCI), a fusion of man and machine, has sparked human imagination since the Industrial Revolution.

Glial cells, once thought to serve only supportive roles in the brain, are now recognized as active participants in neural processing. Comprising ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

Researchers have proposed a new hypothesis for how astrocytes contribute to memory storage, helping to explain the brain's ...