Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each ...

Microglia make up to 17 percent of the cell population in some parts of the human brain and perform housekeeping duties by migrating through the brain eating dead cells and scavenging weak synapses.

Our evolutionary advantage over our primate relatives may come down to accelerated genetic expression in just six types of brain cells.

A new study from Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct ...

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct transmission sites -- not a shared site -- to achieve different types of plasticity.

The Great Apes are humanity’s closest relatives. They look like us, walk like us, raise children like us, and can use tools like us. But do they think like us too? A major difference between apes (e.g ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

Motor vehicles are among the top five causes of bird death in the United States, killing about 200 million birds in ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a "forehead e-tattoo" – a wireless, paper-thin device that ...

In hospital intensive care units, neurologists often use a simple scorecard to quickly evaluate a critically ill patient’s likelihood of having a brain-damaging seizure so they can prevent it. The ...

A high-stakes technology race is playing out in the human brain. Brain-computer interfaces are already letting people with paralysis control computers and communicate their needs, and will soon ...

The study emphasizes that while humans are uniquely vulnerable to the severe cognitive decline and memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s, non-human primates tend to show only mild, age-related ...