Therapeutic fasting offers a metabolic approach to chronic pain by shifting to fat metabolism, reducing systemic inflammation ...

A zebra finch can fit in the palm of your hand, but its brain is doing something that looks almost unruly. Inside one part of ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

This is as good as the real thing, according to Alex Wissner-Gross, a computer scientist and Eon’s cofounder: “What you are ...

Brain function has traditionally been interpreted within a neuron-centric framework; however, this view has shifted toward a model of neuron-glia ...

Placebo effects, in which patients experience relief without therapeutic treatment, increasingly have been considered as ...

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...

Stress-recruited neurons can cause anxiety-like avoidance and increase peripheral corticosterone concentration.

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

The brain is the body's command center, and neurons are the workhorses that carry out its commands. They transmit signals ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, shining light on previously unseen neural connections and lesser-known ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers demonstrate that functional nervous systems can form within self-organized living cellular robots, conferring complex movement patterns and distinct gene ...