By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to ...

A newly identified enzyme appears to control tau production, brain inflammation, and aging. Researchers at the University of ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...

Researchers have identified OTULIN, an immune-regulating enzyme, as a key trigger of tau buildup in the brain. When OTULIN ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...