Customizable stainless steel neural probes enable safer, less expensive brain sensing

The human brain is complex. Understanding deep brain function usually requires the insertion of probes that frequently result ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins-Led Team Creates First Map of Nerve Circuitry in Bone, Identifies Key Signals for Bone Repair

First discovered in the 1950s, NGF is now known to direct the growth, maintenance, proliferation and preservation of neurons ...
Phys.org

Biology-inspired brain model matches animal learning and reveals overlooked neuron activity

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...
Medical Xpress

Natural protein drug may slow neuron death linked to Alzheimer's disease

Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may begin in early life, a drug long-approved for other conditions might be ...
EurekAlert!

Brain neuron death occurs throughout life and increases with age, a natural human protein drug may halt neuron death in Alzheimer’s disease

AURORA, Colo. (Dec. 19, 2025) – Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may begin in early life, a drug long-approved ...
News Medical

Brainwide circuitry mapping reveals how psilocybin drives therapeutic neural rewiring

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 New York Times

Mapping the Sense of What’s Going On Inside

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders. By Carl Zimmer Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a ...
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First-ever map of brain cell development leads recent advances in neuroscience

A map of over 1,000 neurons, reconstructed from an analysis of one cubic millimeter of mouse brain tissue. Courtesy of The Allen Institute. Made up of 86 billion neurons interacting with each other ...
GeekWire

Scientists create a supercomputer simulation that can reveal how the brain works, neuron by neuron

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...
Inc

Here’s What Happens to Your Brain When You Take Just 3,000 Steps a Day, According to Harvard Research

Science is clear that 10,000 steps isn’t the magic number. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t another magic number out there. A new study out of Harvard Medical School recently published in Nature ...
New Atlas

We may not need to exercise to get the same neuron boost as a workout

One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be ...
Singularity Hub

Scientists Map the Brain’s Construction From Stem Cells to Early Adolescence

Like the seeds of a forest, a few cells in embryos eventually sprout into an ecosystem of brain cells. Neurons get the most recognition for their computing power. But a host of other cells provides ...