The new research reveals a novel mechanism for signal transmission in brain cells and helps answer an open question in neuroscience about how intracellular signals travel over long distances in ...

Researchers have identified a unique mitochondrial process in CA2 neurons that supports learning, memory, and social recognition.

We were two wine writers in Austria’s Wachau Valley powering through a technical tasting of Rieslings, Gruner Veltliners and Gewurztraminers. Or one of us was. I was seated at a table before a sea of ...

While a daily multivitamin is generally considered safe, it's possible to overdo it with certain vitamins. "You do also have ...

In the late 1800s scientists began to interrogate the neurological basis of dreams. That changed in Sigmund Freud’s time but ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Virginia Tech neuroscientists have uncovered a mitochondrial process that supports the brain cells critical for learning, ...

Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe ...