The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neuron disease, ...

Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily distinguish between dinner with a friend and a business meeting with the same ...

At Davos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that selling AI chips to China is like arming North Korea, citing rapid AI ...

Dr. Anthony Szema talks about how long-time exposure to everyday pollution raises the risk of developing motor-neuron ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven have identified a molecular process that allows motor neurons to maintain protein production ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

A new study shows that the human brain stores what we remember and the context in which it happens using different neurons.

Most cell surface proteins did not. But 16 did, including two found in the human dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra, a ...

Information pervades the universe, yet means nothing. Meaning emerged when matter organized into systems that could ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...

Bonn, 7 January – The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of ...