Have you ever wondered how the brain is able to see things that are not really there? A hallucination is a perception formed without external stimuli. Last week, neuroscientists at the Stanford ...

Columbia scientists studying mice have identified specialized neurons that respond to a variety of cues to then instruct the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known ...

A South Korean research group has reported in a new paper that artificial intelligence and light-based genetic tools can work together to diagnose and stop Parkinson’s-like disease in mice. The work ...

Researchers in Germany report a major finding in the field of neuroscience that could have important ramifications in new pain therapies targeting Schwann cells in the skin. Classical understanding of ...

Globally recognized figures like Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox have long suffered from Parkinson's disease. The disease presents a complex set of motor symptoms, including tremors, rigidity, ...

Globally recognized figures like Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox have long suffered from Parkinson's disease. The disease presents a complex set of motor symptoms, including tremors, rigidity, ...

Raül Andero Galí, one of the heads of the "Neurobiology of Stress and Addiction" research group at the Institut de Neurociències (INc) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and researcher at ...

As clinical trials using optogenetics—a technology that controls neurons with light like a switch—to restore vision expand, attention is growing. It is currently the only field of optogenetic therapy ...