Artificial intelligence promises to expand our intellectual reach, but we risk weakening the brain’s hard-won capacity to ...

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a serious neurologic disorder that can result in long-term motor and sensory ...

As we age, we begin to lose the connections that wire up our brains-and neuroscientists aren't sure why.

Now, researchers supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience have discovered clues that may tie synapse loss to another hallmark of brain aging: the declining ability of brain cells to ...

In honor of some lesser-known marvels of the female body, we bring you a list of five strange capacities and capabilities of the feminine form.

A holistic inquiry into how toxic tau impacts synapses provides a new take on the processes that lead to neuronal dysfunction ...

A holistic inquiry into how toxic tau impacts synapses provides a new take on the processes that lead to neuronal dysfunction and memory loss in Alzheimer's disease. A tool, developed in the Tracy lab ...

Alzheimer’s may not be the silent destroyer we thought. New research reveals it could be activating a hidden receptor, ...

Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. Researchers found that both amyloid beta and inflammation converge on the same ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons. These ...

This image shows densely accumulated dendritic spines. Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic “hotspot” that forms during adolescence, challenging the ...