For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National ...

Synaptic plasticity — the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning — is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) often lose access to specialized ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at the same ...

Scientists identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting genetic and environmental ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum ...

In a little over ten years, organoid models – miniature, lab-grown clusters of cells that imitate real organs – have transformed how we study human development and disease while accelerating drug ...

The book Someone Like Me offers deeply human insights into what it means to live in a neurotypical world as a neurodivergent person.

New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

Those who tend to people with special needs, such as autism and Down syndrome, are struggling along with their vulnerable charges during the Covid-19 crisis. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the ...

Regrowing the human brain is no longer science fiction. Johns Hopkins engineer Annie Kathuria discusses her TEDx vision for ...