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In a study published in the journal Clinical Epigenetics, researchers identified a set of genomic features, called DNA methylation regions, in sperm samples from men who were known to have autistic children.

Scientists have known for years that mutations in the MLL4 gene can cause Kabuki syndrome, a rare developmental disorder. But a new study illuminates new details regarding how this occurs.

A new study sheds light on how the timing of a memory is encoded in the hippocampus, and suggests that time and space are encoded separately.

A new study has found that up to 20% of glioblastomas – an aggressive type of brain cancer – are fueled by overactive mitochondria. The study also suggests that the mitochondrial subtype and may be treatable with existing drugs or investigational therapeutics currently in clinical development.

Researchers have identified a molecular signature that links together different cell populations in the brain that are selectively vulnerable to the neurodegenerative condition Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

Noncognitive skills and cognitive abilities are both important contributors to educational attainment – the number of years of formal schooling that a person completes – and lead to success across the life course, according to a new study.“

Scientists have engineered a coloring technique, known as NeuroPAL (a Neuronal Polychromatic Atlas of Landmarks), which makes it possible to identify every single neuron in the mind of a worm.

Stay awake too long, and thinking straight can become extremely difficult. Thankfully, a few winks of sleep is often enough to get our brains functioning up to speed again. But just when and why did animals start to require sleep? And is having a brain even a prerequisite?

Dresden neuroscientists show that the entire auditory pathway represents sounds according to prior expectations.

Researchers have developed a modified botulinum toxin that can target and enter nerve cells, delivering a miniature antibody that was able to reverse paralysis in mice.