On Thursday April 1, the Department of Biology hosted Niels Ringstad, professor in the Department of Cell Biology at the New ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has produced a complete connectome of the Drosophila visual system, enabling systematic investigations into how visual information is processed and relayed ...

Years ago, as a neurology resident, Chinfei Chen, MD, Ph.D., cared for a 20-year-old woman who had experienced a very small ...

A new study reveals that the thalamus, long overshadowed by the cortex and hippocampus, plays a crucial role in shaping and updating brain connections.

Two types of neurons in the hippocampus either store memories for sugar or drive fat cravings, shaping food intake and ...

Pain is meant to be a defense mechanism. It creates a strong sensation to get us to respond to a stimulus and prevent ...

Scientists have discovered that female hormones like estrogen and progesterone can trigger immune cells near the spinal cord to release natural opioids, easing pain before it reaches the brain.

This allowed the researchers to determine that in female worms—and only in female worms—the neuron ... receptor, the worms were able to learn; when they put npr-5 back into the worms' sensory ...