Love might feel like butterflies in your stomach, but the real magic happens in your brain. That dizzy, heart-racing, ...

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have discovered connections between the globus pallidus and a rarely explored area of the brain.

Serotonin is primarily synthesized by neurons in the dorsal Raphe nucleus (DRN) in the midbrain. Serotonin neurons in the DRN project to numerous brain regions, including the arcuate of the ...

A recent large-scale study published in Science Advances has revealed a connection between genetic variations associated with ...

The Brain Tour, inside dementia is an app designed for iOS and Android phones, that uses augmented reality to transport users inside the brain. Whether you're curious to explore a healthy brain or ...

Brain implants, made from small clusters of brain cells, could help restore neural pathways damaged by Parkinson’s disease.

Brain implants that could help repair the pathways damaged by Parkinson’s disease are being developed by University of ...

Movement is a complex process governed by a network of neuronal circuits spread across multiple regions of the nervous system ...

Because it can only be diagnosed with an autopsy, the neurodegenerative disease is difficult to pin in cases of professional ...

Stop the Spread. Injecting saline into mouse kidneys did not affect the left or right substantia nigra (top). Injecting fibrils of α-synuclein ablated about half of the dopaminergic neurons (middle ...

As a young physiology student Tipu Aziz was inspired by watching grainy videos from the 1970s showing patients undergoing brain surgery for movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. The films ...

A brain tumor is a mass of abnormal cells that grow in the brain. Brain tumors can be benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous) and can start anywhere in the brain. Malignant tumors grow rapidly ...