The decades-old signature of nuclear testing can reveal the ages of organisms, or even individual cells.

After an accident as a teenager, he developed the disorder. He then studied the brain to better understand his own seizures, and now plans to sail around the world to show others with the condition how to push their limits.

Memory formation in mice involves coordinated activity at the cellular level that likely leads to new circuits in the brain.

By trimming synapses in the adult mouse hippocampus, microglia help facilitate forgetting.

Cell lines from individuals with macrocephalic autism spectrum disorder have an increased number of double-strand breaks in the DNA of long neural genes.

A mouse model of autism and postmortem brains of autistic individuals showed a lack of mature oligodendrocytes and less myelination than controls.

Birds on the Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Songbird Communication and Human Speech

While the findings contradict previous studies that have linked human herpesvirus 6 to the neurodegenerative disease, they do not eliminate the possibility of a relationship.

Researchers could anticipate which way an eight-day-old zebrafish will flick its tail based on brain activity 10 seconds earlier.