Alzheimer’s disease has long been described through the lens of neurons: the loss of synapses, the accumulation of amyloid-β plaques,...

A small peptide derived from a stress-response protein has improved motor performance and extended survival in mice modeling amyotrophic lateral...

A previously underappreciated protein in the cells lining blood vessels may hold the key to how the brain builds and...

Until he entered an operating room for the first time, Aaron Batista believed he understood the brain. As a neural...

A long-term study of young survivors of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage has found that the risk of developing a new brain...

A new study in Nature Neuroscience reports that a clinical expression cassette designed to restore production of survival motor neuron,...

A new study in Drosophila is challenging one of neuroscience’s most familiar ideas: that motor neurons are merely the final...

The brain depends on an intricate internal recycling system to keep its exceptionally long-lived cells functioning. A new review in...

Artificial intelligence systems are often praised for seeing patterns, but many of them remain surprisingly poor at representing detail across...

Ankle sprains are often treated as temporary injuries, but for many people the consequences persist long after swelling and pain...