The rabies virus may take the express train to the brain. By hijacking a transporter protein and hitting the gas, the disease-causing rabies virus races up long nerve cells that stretch through the body, researchers report August 28 in PLOS Pathogens. The new work “is very promising,” says

Zaps to the head can enhance people’s memory by coaxing brain regions to work together. The brain stimulation method called transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, helped healthy people recall words paired with faces, neuroscientist Joel Voss of Northwestern University’s medical school in

In one of my earliest memories, I’m wiggling around on the kitchen floor of my childhood home. My mom had just dropped a bunch of oranges for my brother and me to bang around, maybe to loosen them up for juicing. We scramble and grab the oranges, throwing them against the floor with glee. I don’t

A mainstay of many neuroscience labs, functional MRI relies on blood flow changes in the brain to serve as proxies for active nerve cells. But a new study on mice finds that neurons can be busy with no hint of blood-flow changes. Many researchers assume that fMRI signals reflect neural activity,

US scientists have constructed 3D brain-like tissue that can live for more than two months and allows real-time research on brain trauma, disease and recovery.The scientists discovered they could grow rat neurones in the tissue and then watch how it responded to an injury incurred by dropping a