Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals.

While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

Scientists have developed a computer-based model that may explain how nerve cells become damaged in ALS, and how best to time ...

Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...

An estimated 60% of patients with Alzheimer's disease develop epilepsy or subclinical epileptiform activity over the course of the disease. New-onset seizures in cognitively healthy adults also ...