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A group of researchers have identified identified a link between the structure of the disease-linked protein alpha-synuclein and its potential to aggregate and misfold.

An international team of researchers, including HSE Univesrity's Sofya Kulikova, have discovered clues to why electroencephalograms (EEG) of people with schizophrenic show a deficit of sleep spindles. The article was published in the journal Schizophrenia Research on June 5.

Adult-born neurons in the hippocampus have a key role in memory consolidation during REM sleep, according to a new study.

Protecting nerve cells from losing their dendrites can reduce brain damage after a stroke, according to research using a mouse model.

A new type of wearable brain scanner, capable of scanning the whole brain with millimeter accuracy, could reveal new possibilities for understanding and diagnosing mental illness.

Researchers have identified a specific, front-line defense that limits the infection to the olfactory bulb and protects its neurons from damage due to the infection.

Research is advancing optical microscopy, helping to solve challenging problems across many fields of science and engineering including semiconductor wafer inspection, nanoparticle sensing, material characterization, biosensing, virus counting, and microfluidic monitoring.

A team of scientists led by Philip Khaitovich, a professor at the Skoltech Center for Life Sciences, has conducted a large-scale analysis of gene expression in 33 different regions of human, chimpanzee, macaque and bonobo brains, adopting a mixture of bulk RNA seq and sNuc-Seq.

Using "sub-millimeter" brain implants, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), have been able to determine which parts of the brain are linked to facial and scene recognition.

The capacity to differentiate between the major and minor notes in music may come before you take a single lesson; according to a new study, you may actually be born with it.