UC San Diego scientists have created a gene therapy that goes beyond masking Alzheimer’s symptoms—it may actually restore ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the ...

Scientists at the University of Sydney have uncovered a malfunctioning version of the SOD1 protein that clumps inside brain ...

After nearly 15 years' research, scientists at the UdeM-affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine have developed a compound that has ...

Health Your brain tracks your sleep debt – and now we may know how A newly identified brain circuit in mice may explain why we sleep longer and deeper after being sleep deprived – and lead to ...

This happened even when the nerve connection that conveys touch sensation from the whiskers to the brain was cut, suggesting that mice can detect these sounds as a separate sensory input with ...

Research shows that neurogenesis, collateral sprouting, synaptogenesis, exercise, and an enriched complex housing environment ...

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This important study presents a new method for longitudinally tracking cells in two-photon imaging data that addresses the specific challenges of imaging neurons in the developing cortex. It provides ...

The implanted mice could also localize an LED light source and even discern different shapes (triangles, squares, circles) almost as well as the mice. And on top of that, they gained a superpower.