For more than 200 years, Parkinson’s disease has been treated as a one‑way street, with drugs and devices that ease symptoms ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

The first author on the paper, Michael Almeida, conducted his Ph.D. research entirely at UNCP’s Biotechnology Research and Training Center. Additional co-authors include UNCP graduates Pait (2015), Dr ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right side can, after a turn, become a headwind. To stay on course, the fly's ...

A study suggests overactive VCP may contribute to ALS nerve damage by disrupting nuclear pore proteins in genetic ALS.

Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the ...

Spinal muscular atrophy affects the development of the nervous system more profoundly than was previously thought, a new ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry signals within it and to the rest of the body. Growing axons "wire up" the brain ...

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

For a long time, the study of the brain has largely focused on neuronal cells. However, neurons develop and interact closely together in space and time with ...