As time goes by, our bodies change, you know, even the brain. A major change is how brain structure seems to shrink with age. Studies show that this happens at both large and small levels inside. You ...

More information: Yifei Cai et al, Myelin–axon interface vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease revealed by subcellular proteomics and imaging of human and mouse brain, Nature Neuroscience (2025).

A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLoS Pathogens how a microscopic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can significantly disrupt brain function ...

Today, Long Tieng, according to CNN, looks like any other rural settlement in Southeast Asia. A few guesthouses, basic shops and farming plots line the road. Children ride scooters across what used to ...

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.

Acetaminophen may be doing more than just dulling pain in your brain it could be stopping it before it even starts. Scientists at Hebrew University have discovered that a metabolite of the drug ...

It has been reported that stimulating nociceptive unmyelinated C nerves (C) near the sarcolemma could induce the secretion of endogenous opioids that relieve chronic pain. However, a substantial ...

The enhanced permeability efficiencies still remain a big challenge in crossing the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Herein, a BBB-targeting delivery system based on transferrin (Tf)-poly(ethylene glycol) ...

The neuroscientist records exactly what happens in your brain and also immediately checks all other physical reactions, such as heart rate, sweating, breathing, or laughter and screaming reactions.

Injectable biomaterials provide the advantage of a minimally invasive application but mostly lack the required structural complexity to regenerate aligned tissues. Here, we report a new class of ...

Modeling the human brain requires charting billions of neurons and trillions of connections. The connectome project is pushing science, AI, and human understanding to their limits.