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Artificial models of different areas of the brain have helped researchers to understand how sleep boosts relational memory.

Scientists have shed new light on the effects that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) has on human skeletal muscle, according to a study in men published today in eLife.

A team of researchers has identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate selective autophagy in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

Progress is being made towards developing a blood test that uses the levels of phosphorylated Tau as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers have revealed new details about how ketamine' mechanism of action on potassium channels in neurons, which could help to develop new treatments for depression.

C. elegans has been used as a model organism to investigate how neurons dictate behavioral responses, acting as a starting point for further neuroscientific research in humans.

Altruistic behavior is often seen as an exclusively human characteristic. However, behavioral research has uncovered numerous examples of altruistic behavior in the animal kingdom. In a new study, researchers at the University of Bern show that animals that help others “selflessly” to raise their young generate an evolutionary advantage.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have identified that as amyloid-beta misfolds and clumps together, it releases heat that "fries" the cell and potentially induces more and more aggregates to form.

A new study has revealed how two types of tau proteins mix together to form neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers have found a mechanism by which noradrenaline facilitates fear processing by changing the frequency of brain wave oscillation.