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A new study led by researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) reports that the presence of leptin—a hormone secreted by fat cells that is critical to maintaining energy balance in the body—inhibits the prenatal development of neuronal connections between the brain and pancreas.

How do neurons become neurons? They all begin as stem cells, undifferentiated and with the potential to become any cell in the body.

Neurology researchers link mutations in myelin protein to Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease.

Emotions consist of general components that are also elicited by similar impressions and specific components.

Scientists have documented for the first time how competition among different malaria parasite strains in human hosts could influence the spread of drug resistance.

University of Oregon (UO) scientists have looked into the brains of living mice to see in real time the processing of sensory information and generation of behavioral responses.

To learn what different cells do, scientists switch them on and off and observe what the effects are. There are many methods that do this, but they all have problems: too invasive, or too slow, or not precise enough.

Nagoya University researchers reveal how perceived external information is converted into a succession of neural activities that are crucial for appropriate navigation in an environment.

A healthy brain is critical to a person's cognitive abilities, but measuring brain health can be a complicated endeavor. A new study by University of Illinois researchers reports that healthy brain metabolism corresponds with fluid intelligence—a measure of one's ability to solve unusual or complex problems—in young adults.

Study identifies neurons, brain region involved in rodent stress response.