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Researchers from the Department of Physics have managed to experimentally develop a new magnetic state: a magneto-ionic ...

A study from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz found that fruit flies raised at lower temperatures develop more neural ...

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At excitatory synapses in the cerebral cortex, the most numerous synapses in our brain, the presynaptic nerve ending contains several tens to a few hundreds of synaptic vesicles filled with the ...

Neural activity determines which synapses are preserved; those frequently used become stronger, while inactive ones weaken and are marked for removal. Microglia, the brain’s immune cells ...

Microscopy images show fluorescently stained mouse brains expressing genes that cause Alzheimer’s disease. Compared with an ...

Early menopause and poor brain-connection health may interact to increase Alzheimer's disease risk in women, a study found.