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A team of scientists has found that glial astrocytes are involved in regulating inhibitory synapses by binding to neurons through an adhesion molecule called NrCAM.

Military and law-enforcement personnel repeatedly exposed to low-level blasts have significant brain changes – including an increased level of brain injury and inflammation — compared with a control group, a new study has found.

Scientists are challenging the common understanding of how mammalian brains work.

Individualized brain stimulation therapy improves language performance in stroke survivors.

A new study lays out a large medical analytics framework that can be used in neuroscience and neurology to study brain connectivity in living organisms.

Researchers have found that a biomarker in the blood may determine the extent of brain injury from different types of strokes and predict prognosis in these patients.

Researchers have discovered that compounds that activate GABA receptors in the brain can keep rats from self-administering increased levels of nicotine during stressful conditions in an animal model for relapse.

Both of Andrew Kiselica’s grandfathers developed dementia when he was in graduate school.

New work shows that kappa opioid receptors actually are distributed widely throughout the brain. The researchers made this discovery after lighting up the brains of mice using a technique called CLARITY followed by three-dimensional (3D) fluorescent im…

Even though repeated hits to the head are common in professional sports, the long-term effects of concussions are still poorly understood. While many believe that professional athletes who experience multiple concussions will end up with severe cogniti…