While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals.

Scientists have developed a computer-based model that may explain how nerve cells become damaged in ALS, and how best to time ...

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of pleasure, motivation, and reinforcement. In popular understanding, higher ...

Dopamine plays a more complex and precise role in brain function than previously thought: it not only enhances neural activity, but regulates inhibitory circuits that determine which signals are ...

Schizophrenia has long been one of medicine’s most puzzling conditions, with genetics offering tantalizing clues but an incomplete picture. A record-setting DNA study in people of African ancestry is ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

The brains of humans and other mammals contain a vast array of neuronal and non-neuronal cell types. The human capacity to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on ...

An estimated 60% of patients with Alzheimer's disease develop epilepsy or subclinical epileptiform activity over the course of the disease. New-onset seizures in cognitively healthy adults also ...