Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years.

A type of aggressive, treatment-resistant brain tumor has a distinct population of immune cells that support its growth, according to new research.

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and ...

Virginia Tech neuroscientists have uncovered a mitochondrial process that supports the brain cells critical for learning, ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as PFAS, are synthetic chemicals engineered ... such as neuron survival, synapse development, and overall brain cell maintenance.

The active compounds in mushrooms support the growth of new brain cells and help regulate the release of neurotransmitters or chemicals that send messages between nerve cells in the brain. In one ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McLean Hospital in Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School studied brain tissue donated by 53 people with Huntington’s and 50 without it ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McLean Hospital in Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School studied brain tissue donated by 53 people with Huntington’s and 50 without it ...

Researchers at Yale and the University of Connecticut discovered that electrical synapses in the brain play a vital role in filtering ... which differs from the more widely studied chemical synapses.

to flush the brain tissue and wash away unwanted molecules,” she explained. “The cleaning system of the brain is called the glymphatic system. Importantly, the glymphatic system is only on ...

Post-mortem studies of human brains provide direct evidence that numerous pollutants — including nanoparticles and toxic metals — accumulate in brain tissue. Ultrafine particles and chemicals ...