New research reveals that the developmental timing of fluoxetine (Prozac) treatment profoundly influences long-term mood and brain function.

Scientists used 3D mini-brains grown from stem cells to study Huntington’s disease. They found early developmental changes linked to mitochondrial stress, suggesting that energy imbalance may play a ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Antidepressants have strong impact on male brains — with the nature of the impact depending on the age of the subject — but ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that neurons can burn fat, challenging the long-held belief that the brain relies solely on glucose for fuel.

University of Western Australia research reveals how cells convert physical exercise forces into energy production responses.

UC Riverside study may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 2.3 ...

Mitochondrial abnormalities, or problems in cells' powerhouses, contribute to nerve cell death linked to motor control in MS, per a study.

Initially, the breast cancer cells had only 2% of nerve cell mitochondria, but cancer cells that spread to the brain had a proportion of 14%.