Dopamine neurons in the midbrain may, with aging, be increasingly susceptible to a vicious spiral of decline driven by fuel shortages, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine (NY, USA) ...
New research identifies a specific neural pathway (Pdyn+ neurons) that carries stress signals from the brain to the skin, triggering eczema flares by activating eosinophils.
Neuroscientists at King’s College London (UK) have pinpointed a mechanism behind the increased neural connectivity seen in ...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM and MEMPHIS, TN – November 25, 2025 – Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a brain enzyme called OTULIN controls the expression of tau, the protein that forms ...
Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when performing an action and when observing another individual perform that same action, a process thought to help an individual ...
A team of researchers from Israel and the US say their findings about biological brain flexibility in a new peer-reviewed ...
In a sweeping new map of the adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, researchers at the University of Oxford found that mature ...
Alzheimer’s disease is widely known for its most visible symptoms, such as memory loss, confusion, and difficulty thinking ...