Between and around the billions of neurons in the human brain is an equally vital scaffold, the extracellular matrix (ECM).

In hospital operating rooms and intensive care units, propofol is a drug of choice, widely used to sedate patients for their ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have employed propofol to investigate how the thalamus and cortex interact, ...

Imagine a world where Alzheimer's disease could be effectively treated, not just managed. We might be one step closer to that ...

Scientists have taken the most detailed picture yet of the dynamic brain changes that unfold over the course of a human ...

Between and around the billions of neurons in the human brain is an equally vital scaffold, the extracellular matrix (ECM).

A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.

Scientists have found DNA in the nucleus of brain cells, where it shouldn’t be. Bits of genes that typically reside in mitochondria insert themselves at unexpectedly high rates into brain cells ...

But they focused mostly on overall structure or zoomed in on molecular details. They didn’t chart the long journey of each individual cell’s role that, together, led to Alzheimer’s. “Past studies have ...

The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped the human brain during pregnancy and witnessed the stages of this metamorphosis.

As hormones surge, some brain areas shrink in what scientists say may be a fine-tuning that helps mothers bond with and care ...