Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

Summary: Neurons can rapidly rebalance their communication using a structural signal rather than electrical activity, overturning long-held assumptions about how synapses maintain stability. When ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline and structural brain alterations such as cortical atrophy and hippocampal degeneration. Early ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Education has given the green light for the new classification setup that will be used by the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission. The ...

ROANOKE, W.Va. (WSAZ) - The governing body for high school athletics in West Virginia held a vote on Tuesday to reform its four-level classification system. During a meeting at Stonewall Resort, the ...

Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to form connections could be the future ...

Children with autism have different brains than children without autism, down to the structure and density of their neurons, according to a study by the University of Rochester Medical Center, New ...

There is new evidence that the cells responsible for communication in the brain may be structured differently in children with autism. Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the ...

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