The neuropeptide oxytocin is a special messenger substance that nerve cells use to communicate with each other. It is acting ...

A new McGill University study has found a direct link between age-related declines in neuron activity in the cerebellum and ...

Acupuncture eased migraine without aura and brain scans revealed connectivity patterns that predicted greater pain and ...

Neuropathic pain, caused by injury or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, is a major clinical challenge and often evolves into a chronic condition. Importantly, up to 80% of patients with ...

New research suggests that the brains of people with Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) struggle to communicate effectively during mentally tiring tasks. While ...

Apathy, social withdrawal, loss of motivation: the so-called "negative" symptoms of schizophrenia are among the most disabling and difficult to treat. A team from the University of Geneva ...

1 Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy ...

The cerebellar output can trigger whisker movement through indirect projections that pass via several brainstem pre-motor nuclei before reaching the facial nucleus, which directly controls whisker ...

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug. The study, led by Ken-ichi Amemori, a neuroscientist at ...

A neural circuit that processes motivation and reward seems to act as a "brake" when faced with an unpleasant task, a study suggests. Elke Meitzel via Getty Images Many of us struggle to start a ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

Some parts of the body can recover from injury fairly rapidly. The cornea, for example, can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The human brain, however, is not one of these fast-healing ...