This new finding could help explain why some children develop neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism or schizophrenia.

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have made an important discovery about how inflammation in ...

Mirror neurons received significant media attention in the 2000s and were painted by some scientists as the key to many of our advanced social abilities. However, many of the more significant ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they may be exposed to blast waves that damage blood vessels in the ...

Some of these essential components are: The cerebellum (Latin for “little brain”) is packed with 50 percent of the neurons contained in the whole central nervous system. It is located at the ...

Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers have shown that, just like declarative memories, short-term and long-term memories for motor skills form in different regions of the brain, with the cerebellum being ...

Jan. 17, 2025 — Neuroscientists have identified that the receptor IL-1R1 plays a critical role in enabling neurons to directly communicate with the immune system. The new study provides the most ...

The body has billions of nerve cells Every person’s body contains billions of nerve cells (neurons). There are about 100 billion in the brain and 13.5 million in the spinal cord. The body’s ...

Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary science that is concerned with the study of the structure and function of the nervous system. It encompasses the evolution, development, cellular and molecular ...

Different aggregation characteristics and stability profiles of tau oligomeric polymorphs highlight the importance of studying the tau polymorphs to shed light on the functional differences and ...