Scientists pinpoint brain circuits linked to either resilience or vulnerability to adversity, which affect a stressed ...

Imagine listening to your grandparents weave a captivating story about their childhood. How does our brain manage to store ...

The black box of the human brain is starting to open. Although animal models are instrumental in shaping our understanding of ...

A new study has revealed distinct features of the human hippocampus, a brain region critical for memory storage and retrieval, challenging the assumption that it functions like a scaled-up mouse brain ...

In early October, scientists revealed something spectacular—a complete map of a fruit fly’s brain. Roughly the size of a ...

Deep brain stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus improves walking and promotes recovery in patients with spinal cord injury ...

Researchers at the University of Lausanne have discovered a new function of the brain's "locus coeruleus" in regulating sleep ...

UCSF scientists are uncovering the brain mechanisms behind resilience to stress and exploring new, non-invasive treatments ...

For example, mitophagy levels increased in a specialized mouse brain region responsible for movement as the animals aged, while in memory-related brain cells, mitophagy first rose and then sharply ...

The black box of the human brain is starting to open. Although animal models are instrumental in shaping our understanding of ...