While extremely rare, encephalopathy (a condition affecting brain function) triggered by mutations in the UBA5 gene has devastating impacts, with affected individuals reaching few developmental ...

Over the past decade, intensive studies have shown that the brain's meningeal lymphatic system acts as the brain's "waste ...

The research, published in Nature Human Behavior, analyzed MRI scans from over 1,000 children to map how different brain ...

Why do cats generally live longer than dogs? New research suggests that longer lifespans of mammals like cats could be linked ...

A revolutionary microscopy method called LICONN enables scientists to reconstruct brain tissue and map synaptic connections ...

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior.

A decades-old challenge in neuroscience has been solved by harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the electrical signatures of different types of brain cells for the first time, as part ...

shown to make myocytes - the heart cells that generate electrical impulses that cause the heart to beat - less prone to developing abnormal rhythms when an adverse condition such as a heart attack ...

The function of the abducens nerve is to move your lateral rectus muscle. This lets your eye rotate away from the center of your body and look to the left or right. Sometimes called the abducent nerve ...

Teenagers who sleep longer perform better at mental tasks, reveals new research. Adolescents who sleep for longer – and from an earlier bedtime – tend to have improved brain function and ...

Adolescents who sleep for longer – and from an earlier bedtime – tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, according to the study. But the findings showed ...

Adolescents who sleep for longer – and from an earlier bedtime – tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, according to the study. But the findings showed that even ...