Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication ...

Neurons can rapidly rebalance their communication using a structural signal rather than electrical activity, overturning long-held assumptions about how synapses maintain stability.

Scientists developed two new sensors that can detect brain cell communication in real time, tracking chemical messages between neurons with unprecedented speed and sensitivity. Dramatic performance ...

A new study suggests that cognitive loss in patients with brain metastases may be due to the interference that cancer produces in neuronal circuits. When cancer spreads in the brain, it changes the ...

Scientists can finally hear the brain’s quietest messages—unlocking the hidden code behind how neurons think, decide, and ...

Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body.

After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers ...

A new study shows that mRNAs in neurons cluster largely because abundant messages randomly overlap, not because they travel ...

Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches of neurons in the ...

In the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, characters can save their consciousness to a hard drive so that their personalities will live on inside a machine. When the novel was ...

New research from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences shows that neurons can stabilize their signaling using a fast, physical mechanism — not the electrical activity scientists long ...