New research from Texas A&M University could change the way traumatic brain injuries and seizures are treated.

Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into ...

India's new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain's least known regions.

An experimental study of individuals suffering from persistent depressive disorder found that treatment with the ...

Two new research papers from the Living Brain Project at Mount Sinai present what is, by several metrics, the largest investigation ever performed of the biology of the living human brain. The papers ...

Two seemingly identical neurons may not be identical after all. Discover the new theory that links their differences to the ...

Scientists have, for the first time, mapped in exquisite three-dimensional detail six major conformations of a membrane in ...

A new experimental treatment may have found a way to outsmart glioblastoma’s toughest defense: the blood-brain barrier.

Graphic illustration showing sugar-coated nanoparticles crossing the blood-brain barrier to treat glioblastoma. (Parinaz ...

Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic that have been found all over the world and in the human body. Oregon State University via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Microplastics are inescapable.

In a recent viewpoint published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a group of authors evaluated emerging evidence linking nanoplastics to neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disorders and ...