Explore the connection between neurodegeneration and cellular senescence in understanding brain structure and ageing.

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

New research reveals memory loss with age follows a curved pattern, linked to widespread brain shrinkage rather than a single ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

A new treatment for one type of Parkinson's disease may be on the horizon after researchers discovered a "brake" that can halt cell death. The study, led by researchers from Stanford University, ...

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, ...

From the smallest fragment of brain tissue, the intricate blueprint of the entire brain is beginning to emerge. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine are making several time-consuming aspects of ...

Detail of a pyramidal cell. Dendrites are red and orange. The axon is blue. Source: Allen Institute for Brain Science Neuroscience got its start more than 100 years ago when Santiago Ramon y Cajal and ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...