To understand how memories are formed and maintained, neuroscientists travel far beyond the cell body in search of answers.

Evidence suggests that COVID-19 is primarily an airborne disease. Yet the details of how transmission occurs are still debated and frequently misunderstood.

Conversations between the immune and central nervous systems are proving to be essential for the healthy social behavior, learning, and memory.

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Strategies to make lab animals forget, remember, or experience false recollections probe how memory works, and may inspire treatments for neurological diseases.

Nerve signals control T cell responses, helping to explain inflammation and stroke.

The world was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but researchers rose to all manner of challenges.

Technologies such as noninvasive brain stimulation and virtual reality gaming offer insights into how dreams arise and what functions they might serve.

Absence of human contact is associated with declines in cognitive function. But as the COVID-19 pandemic brings concerns about the potential harms of isolation to the fore, researchers are still hunting for concrete evidence of a causal role as well as possible mechanisms.