Researchers report that certain movement-related symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease may originate in the peripheral nervous system rather than the brain.

Second, for the brain to manage this distributed processing, it requires integration and effective long-range communications. To synchronize those efforts, Barbey said, there is "a large and complex ...

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days. Human organoids continued for 200 days, growing into 4-millimetre spheres ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture of the microscope system. (CREDIT: Tatsuya Osaki) For decades, scientists have worked to peer deeper into the brain.

Glioma is a tumor of the central nervous system that originates from glial cells, which support neurons in the brain. In the ...

Psychologist Prof. Dr Christian Doeller from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences has students in Leipzig play computer games in a scanner to investigate how their brains ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

For years, scientists have viewed cancer as a localized glitch in which cells refuse to stop dividing. But a new study suggests that, in certain organs, tumors actively communicate with the brain to ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...