Since the first case was documented in the United States in 1938, the causes of autism have remained elusive. Hundreds...

Cocaine is one of the most addictive substances known to man, and for good reason: By acting on levels of...

What you see is not always what you get. And that, researchers at The Rockefeller University have discovered, is a...

Concerns over the Zika virus have focused on pregnant women due to mounting evidence that it causes brain abnormalities in...

When it comes to measuring brain activity, scientists have tools that can take a precise look at a small slice...

Aging takes its toll on the brain, and the cells of the hippocampus--a brain region with circuitry crucial to learning...

More than half of our brains are made up of glial cells, which wrap around nerve fibers and insulate them--similarly...

To learn what different cells do, scientists switch them on and off and observe what the effects are. There are...

A small peptide generated from a collagen protein may protect the brain from schizophrenia by promoting the formation of neuronal...

Members of neuroscientist Cori Bargmann's lab spend quite a bit of their time watching worms move around. These tiny creatures, Caenorhabditis...

Chronic stress can lead to changes in neural circuitry that leave the brain trapped in states of anxiety and depression....

Multiple sclerosis patients continually lose the insulating myelin sheath that wraps around neurons and increases the speed of impulses in...

During embryonic development, billions of neurons nimbly reposition themselves within the brain and spinal cord, and connect branches to form...

The sight of a face offers the brain something special. More than a set of features, it conveys the emotions,...

Loud noise, trauma, infections, plain old aging--many things can destroy hair cells, the delicate sensors of balance and sound within...