A new study reveals how young synapses gradually mature to send chemical signals correctly — a process that can take days and depends on neural activity.

A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing. Published in the journal Cell, the research shows that these glial cells are ...

MIT scientists have developed a new 3D human brain tissue model that could change how researchers study neurological diseases ...

Many patients with long COVID experience brain fog, but the reasons are not well understood. A new study links brain fog to a ...

Wiring up the brain's trillions of circuit connections is an enormous job performed by a huge crew of molecules. Among the less understood members are circular RNAs, transcripts from DNA that assume a ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you ...

Bridging that gap means combining insights from single-cell studies in animals, human brain imaging, and behavior. Now, a new kind of computer model-grounded in real biology-lets researchers simulate ...

With the support of the NINDS Research Program Award, McIntyre will use patient-specific models to better understand how ...

A scan‑to‑print medical model. University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new open-source tool that enables ...

The dorsal vagal complex is a highly intricate structure composed of distinct transcriptional classes of glial and neuronal cells, exhibiting many similarities but also notable differences between ...