Neurologists know that exercise benefits the brain by increasing blood flow and ferrying oxygen to it. Even a small dose of ...

memory formation hinges on connections between groups of engram cells, which are neurons thought to capture and store ...

Using in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists have demonstrated that neurons can transform from one type ...

Instead of becoming overwhelmed by my brain's ideas ... Keep the content short and to the point; you can always build it out over time. Inside your Ideas folder, for example, you can have a ...

Columbia scientists mapped brain mitochondria for the first time, revealing how energy shapes memory, mood, and mental health ...

The new treatment would target the harmful build-up of proteins in the brain ... researchers used TRIM21 to clear out harmful tau clumps inside brain cells. When the tau clumps were bound by ...

The study also adds to growing research that links oxidative stress—when harmful molecules like nitric oxide build up in the ...

Today we know these as amyloid plaques, which, along with tau tangles – the build-up of tau proteins inside neurons ... But having amyloid deposits in the brain does not always lead to ...

As The Guardian reports, scientists examined postmortem brain tissue from dozens of human ... trying to track down how these microplastics get inside our bodies. Campen suggests nanoparticles ...

Would patients ever blush, blink or smile again? We now know the answer is yes, thanks to the brain’s remarkable ability to reactivate its internal maps of the body. There are two such maps ...