Evidence is mounting that there are distinct subtypes of autism, and now, scientists have found that the condition can vary ...

A recent study has revealed that specific patterns of gene activity serve as a hidden map that guides the complex wiring of ...

For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion. The finding, reported in the journal Nature, ...

A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an ...

A study published in Nature Neuroscience has split autism into two distinct biological types based on how the brain wires its ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and ...

Broken or disrupted circuits in the brain contribute to many neurological disorders. A new custom-built biological "wire" developed at Duke University School of Medicine points the way toward a new ...

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