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A study recently published in the journal Nature provides evidence that individual brain cells in the human cortex act as ...

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked mechanism of brain cell death that appears to play a major role in ...

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For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an ...

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Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, according to a new study in mice. These pathways appear to connect distant regions in ways that ...

Sialic acid is a natural sugar building block found on the surfaces of our cells. It acts as a protective and recognition molecule and plays a central role in the development of the nervous system.

Place cells are neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, that help the brain keep track of the body’s location in space. Arrays of these cells form a cognitive map, firing off electrical ...

The study reveals that prenatal fructose exposure directly alters neural stem cells (NSCs), the foundational master cells ...