A team of researchers discover how the stentor, an organism made of a single, gigantic cell, learns without a brain.

A cellular-resolution map of prenatal brain development in Down syndrome reveals disrupted neuron production timing and altered cell types.

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

UC San Francisco scientists have uncovered how the single-celled Stentor coeruleus learns, despite lacking a brain or neurons. The organism uses calcium signaling and protein modification—mechanisms ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Groundbreaking research from Karolinska Institutet reveals that humans can grow new neurons well into old age, offering new hope ...

Researchers discover that the protein Adgrl2 uses alternative splicing to switch between building brain synapses and sealing ...

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...

Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive type of brain cancer that is known to be very difficult to treat. One reason why this ...