Recordings of electrical activity in porcine brains finds similarities to rodent neural tissue.

The brain’s immune cells gobble up synapses in the hippocampi of rodents fed high-fat or high-sugar diets.

Boosting both neurogenesis and a brain-derived growth factor can mimic the cognitive benefits of exercise in a mouse mode of Alzheimer’s disease.

Immune cells travel through these passageways to get to injured tissue quickly, researchers say.

A study compares verbal and math test scores to air quality measurements in China and finds a correlation.

Rosehip neurons are not found in rodents. Perhaps they offer clues about what separates our brains from those of other animals.

Epidiolex, a cannabis-derived medicine for epilepsy, will prompt federal regulatory changes that could crack open access to study the plant.

NIDA pharmacologist Michael Baumann explains how “unscrupulous vendors” hijacked compounds used in neuroscience and turned them into dangerous drugs.

A double gene-transfer therapy transformed the non-neuronal cells into rod photoreceptors in the retinas of animal models of congenital blindness.