A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

Neurons that track which direction an animal faces can hold their firing patterns steady for months, even as other brain cells tied to spatial memory shift and rearrange. That finding, drawn from long ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

The brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated, Penn State scientists reported in Nature Neuroscience, noting the connection could be a potential biological mechanism ...

For years, the idea of building a working replica of the human brain has lived comfortably in the realm of science fiction. A ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between simple body movement and brain health: every time you tighten your ...

The brain predicts the past and learns from prediction errors—unless it's overwhelmed. A little uncertainty is good; a lot is ...