In this valuable manuscript, authors ablate cerebellar oligodendrocytes during postnatal development and show that synchrony of calcium transients in Purkinje neurons and behaviours are affected even ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that ...

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter known to modulate motivation and reinforcement learning. While the role of dopamine in ...

The current human tissue-based study provides convincing evidence correlating hippocampal expressions of RNA guanine-rich G-quadruplexes with aging and with Alzheimer's Disease presence and severity.

You might be familiar with a sensation called "brain zaps," or sensory disturbances that feel like electric shocks inside the brain. This symptom can occur after you skip or stop antidepressants ...

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

We identify stellate-like and round neurons in the central nucleus of the IC (CNIC ... De-identified human fetal brain specimens (deemed non-pathological) of 15, 18, 21, 24 and 27 GW, respectively, ...

Differences in gene expression, not just their presence, seems to drive the remarkable specialization found in the human brain. Credit ... a device with a very narrow channel to separate each nucleus ...

Scientists have discovered a mechanism called excitation-mitochondrial DNA transcription coupling (E-TCmito) that links neuronal activity to mitochondrial function. This mechanism plays a critical ...

Pokemon fans of all ages are still pining over the original 151, so we’re explaining how to find Pokemon Red and Blue and how to play them in 2025. The 30th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise ...

Discovered over 100 years ago, nuclear speckles are tiny cellular structures that reside in the nucleus. Here, they're thought to intermingle with DNA and help regulate gene activity. Alexander's ...