A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating mental illness.

As organisms grow older, changes in the bacteria living inside the digestive system can directly cause the memory loss ...

We become forgetful as we age. This is often seen as a universal truth, but in fact it is far from universal: some people remain incredibly sharp at 100 years old, while others experience memory loss ...

What situations make you feel nervous, fearful, or anxious to the point that you get butterflies and feel sick to your stomach? Are there people, places, or situations in your life that evoke a ...

Research in mice has found that N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), one of the active ingredients of the psychedelic tea ayahuasca, can spark the creation of new nerve cells and improve spatial learning and ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Transduction is the changing of one form of energy into another, such as a spoken voice changed into radio waves by a cellphone. Ten years ago, three research teams published a ...

Researchers regard the overall distribution of receptors in the brain – the receptome – as a new approach for computer models that reproduce the function of the brain, and for diagnostics and therapy ...

SIX years after the Covid-19 pandemic, brain fog continues to haunt millions. For those still suffering from the pandemic-prompted illness, the experience is often described as living underwater. That ...

The pleasure of eating begins in the mouth, albeit extends far beyond it. The sensation that we know as taste involves an intricate system of nerves that relay information from the tongue’s taste buds ...