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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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

Each octopus arm has its own dense network of neurons, up to 350 million across all eight arms, that can work without the ...

The scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore injected an ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but ...

Hopkins neuroscientist Richard Huganir is close to finding a potential life-changing treatment for kids with SYNGAP1-related ...

Exploring how sex differences regulate dopamine responses could inform novel interventions to prevent or treat substance use ...