The brain learns due to neurons using multiple mechanisms to store knowledge according to a new study by researchers.

Learning is something everyone does daily—mastering new skills at work, remembering song lyrics, or following directions to ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

For some creatures, a lost body part is not necessarily a permanent affair. Salamanders can regrow limbs and zebrafish can ...

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain – revealing more than 500 million connections in a ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.