Researchers have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing the textbook understanding that ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended the decades-old dogma of how connections ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research.

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language-processing ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...

Tt is hoped that this new information will help the comprehension and treatment of conditions like Alzheimer's.

Researchers have developed an extremely thin, flexible imager that could be useful for noninvasively acquiring images from ...