A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in ...

A.K. Saliency maps generated by a deep neural network trained on thousands of MRI images display brain regions with the most (red) and least (blue) importance in estimating the pace of brain aging ...

Oligodendrocytes (green), in the hippocampus of the mouse brain. These cells often deteriorate during aging. (Gadek et al., Science Advances, 2025) The X chromosome harbors about 5 percent of the ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, they identify a previously unknown type of brain cell that plays a key role in recognizing and remembering objects. Ovoid cells active in the hippocampus ...

Currently, relatively little is known about the impact of HCs on the brain. This is surprising ... The cortex was thinner in the left anterior and posterior cingulate gyrus and the left insula.

Researchers have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays signals from his brain to a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...

Gliomas are types of cancers that arise in the brain and are extraordinarily difficult to treat. They are the leading cause of brain tumour-related deaths in both children and adults. Two ...

If she takes them within 10 years of menopause, they say, her brain will be fine. Current treatment guidelines reflect that view. To examine what happens inside the brain after hormone therapy ...

"The cool thing is we don't have to create a little human, or a cat or mouse in a dish," he said. "We can build out discreet systems of brain cells and use them for the purpose we want. They're ...

A high-resolution microscope image of proliferative astrocytes (shown in green and white) in the white matter region of a mouse brain. (Image credit: ©Judith Fischer-Sternjak) If similar ...