This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

Neuroscientists are developing methods to map the brain systems that allow us to recognize and get around our world.

Immune system scientists and computational biologists are developing a new tool to investigate how the body fights disease.

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a technology that can directly stimulate individual ...

Researchers at Tulane University have created a first-of-its-kind subcellular map of an area of the brain commonly affected ...

From birth to the last moments of life, the human brain is known to change and evolve significantly, both in terms of its ...