Experiencing severe stress during childhood can make a person more vulnerable to anxiety, depression and other mood disorders ...

Brain-resident immune cells that have reached an old-age state called "senescence" secrete a protein that causes dysfunction in other brain cells, according to a study led by investigators at Weill ...

Brain-resident immune cells that have reached an old-age state called "senescence" secrete a protein that causes dysfunction ...

How readily a cell divides and how well it survives are fundamental to life, shaping everything from organ size to the body's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have long studied songbirds, such as zebra finches, to understand the brain. Every day the human body replaces billions ...

Researchers found that blocking SETD7 after early-life stress prevented lasting changes in DNA packaging and protected mice ...

A group of brain cells called orexin neurons appears to help us keep working when reaching a reward becomes increasingly ...

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells - one of the few brain cell types that continue to be produced in the adult ...

Whales may share our kind of intelligence, researchers say after discovering brain cells previously found only in humans and other primates. They were touted as the brain cells that set humans and the ...

For 20 years, the grid cell was the closest thing neuroscience had to a fixed point. May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser found ...

Impaired glucose signaling in the brain contributes to depression. Clinical trials demonstrate that reversing insulin ...

Brain cells that help make us human are also uniquely vulnerable to multiple sclerosis. A newfound cellular repair kit can’t keep up with the disease’s damage, leading to the cell death that’s a ...