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With full genetic control and visibility into neural activity and behavior, scientists map out chemical’s role in behavior.

Fresh insights into the spread of damaging proteins that build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease could hold the key to stopping the condition progressing, a study says.

The difficult-to-treat brain cancer glioblastoma steals a person’s mental faculties as it spreads, yet the tumor’s insidious ability to infiltrate neighboring networks in the brain could also prove its undoing.

Researchers described the structure of a special type of amyloid beta plaque protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression. Scientists showed the small aggregates of the amyloid beta protein could float through the brain tissue fluid, re…

The touch of another person may increase levels of the ‘feelgood’ hormone oxytocin. But the context really matters. The situation impacts oxytocin levels not only in the moment, but also later.

A new study in mice and rats found that restoring certain signals in a brain region that processes smells countered depression.

Researchers have developed a zebrafish model that provides new insight into how the brain acquires essential omega-3 fatty acids, including docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and linolenic acid (ALA), with the potential to improve understanding of lipid transp…

Depression is a condition affecting millions across the globe. However, efficient drugs with minimal adverse effects are scarce. Now, researchers have reported how KNT-127, a delta opioid receptor agonist, quickly and efficiently reduces classic parame…

Scientists have found a lipid transporter crucial to regulating the cells that make myelin, the nerve-protecting sheath.

In the first in-human clinical trial, scientists used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to deliver chemotherapy that was injected intravenousl…