A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different cell types in the brain—astrocytes and microglia—communicate in response to ...

How the brain gets wired up matters. Consider the neurons involved in the sense of smell. Hook them up wrong, and suddenly turpentine might smell like a lovely chianti. Yet how our developing brains ...

What do you anticipate when you are about to go for a 20-minute walk, but struggle with chronic pain in your back, legs, or feet? You probably dread the inevitable ache radiating from your back or the ...

An international collaboration led by Cornell University researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map how – and where – the psychedelic compound rewires the connections in ...

The joint study used deep brain stimulation devices to measure how 12 exercise sessions created new neural pathways in regions controlling movement and coordination.