One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be ...

Approaches to achieving radical life extension involve many scientific unknowns. There is uncertainty around whether the different forms of aging damage can be repaired. There is an approach to ...

Your brain weighs less than 3 pounds but has the power to move your whole body. That’s because it’s part of your nervous system. Your brain and the spinal cord that runs down your back make up your ...

Cerebellar granule cell and its response to a pair of 50-Hz stimuli. (A) Biological neuron. (B) Computational model used for simulation. (C) Simulated neuron. (D) Electronic neuron. The biological ...

After a brain hemorrhage, neural support cells called astrocytes enhance healing by transferring their mitochondria to damaged neurons. The healthy mitochondria stimulate the production of a free ...