Neurodegenerative diseases damage and destroy neurons, ravaging both mental and physical health. Parkinson's disease, which affects over 10 million people...
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By washing through the brain, neuromodulators “allow you to govern the excitability of a large region of the brain more...
Selkoe, D. J. & Hardy, J. The amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease at 25 years. EMBO Mol. Med. 8, 595–608...
A new study has prompted scientists to reconsider a once-popular yet controversial idea in stroke research. Neuroscientists believed that, in...
The making of a human brain remains a mostly mysterious process that races from an embryonic neural tube to more...
The lethargy that many Alzheimer's patients experience is caused not by a lack of sleep, but rather by the degeneration...
DeFelipe, J. et al. New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 14, 202–216...
When we make complex decisions, we have to take many factors into account. Some choices have a high payoff but...
In recent years, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous, with applications such as speech interpretation, image recognition, medical diagnosis, and many...
When a heavy alcohol drinker tries to take a night off, their body protests, with shaky hands, heart palpitations, anxiety...