New research has uncovered a disrupted brain communication pathway in children with autism that impairs their ability to quickly shift attention—an essential skill for social interaction.

Every year roughly 1,000 Canadians are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). Some 4,000 Canadians are currently living with the disease. There are few ...

A recent paper links CAG repeat expansion with widespread RNA changes, especially in brain cells vulnerable to HD. “Knocking ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered ...

The team of scientists behind the project said the map of neuron wiring was so complex, it looked like a picture of a galaxy.

Using a piece of a mouse’s brain no larger than a grain of sand, scientists from across three institutions created a detailed ...

Researchers examined a fragment of the mouse's brain, approximately the size of a poppy seed, pinpointing neurons and tracing ...

The identification of peripheral neural stem cells could transform the treatment of Parkinson's disease and spinal cord ...

Infections of the brain can cause headache, weakness, confusion and seizures. Approximately one-third of all patients infected with nocardiosis develop skin ulcers or sores, instead of an internal ...

This lets us develop a colony-specific standard operating procedure ... several sources for more information on rodent breeding and colony management. Mouse Genome Informatics Mutant Mouse Regional ...

This is a mouse study, so it's not clear if these same patterns ... "The lack of studies on the causal functions of the mPFC, BLA and NAc circuits in the developing brain has left a major gap in our ...