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Groundbreaking neuroscience research by an international team led by scientists at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research ...

A new study reveals how interneurons, brain cells that regulate the firing of other neurons, act as traffic controllers in ...

Understanding how new neurons affect brain function throughout adulthood can offer new approaches to treating epilepsy and ...

Researchers have flipped the script on the usual approach to pain relief in a new study, demonstrating that a short course of ...

Fret not, my sleep-deprived friend, because new neuroscience suggests that NREM sleep—meaning, straightforwardly, “non-rapid ...

we demonstrate that these excitatory neurons induce vasoconstriction when their action potential firing is increased by releasing glutamate and lipid messengers. These findings update the ...

This year is the centennial anniversary of German psychiatrist Hans Berger's invention of electroencephalography (EEG), a way ...

For decades, scientists believed the heart was a normal organ controlled entirely by the brain. Now, the picture just got a ...

Understanding how new neurons affect brain function throughout adulthood can offer new approaches to treating epilepsy and ...