Here are five brain facts that are now brain fiction.

Prof. Boaz Barak A groundbreaking study from Tel Aviv University expands the understanding of the biological mechanism ...

Transmission of information or signal from one neuron to another requires the establishment of a neuronal synapse: either chemical (neurotransmitters) or electrical (protein channels and ions).

An itch can drive you absolutely crazy, but there are times when scratching only makes it worse—throwing your body's ...

Binge drinking in early adult years fundamentally changes how the brain's neurons communicate, in what scientists equate to a ...

However, questions remain about the rules and parameters that help set up that type of shifting system. One possibility comes ...

Synaptic transmission is the biological process by which a neuron communicates with a target cell across a synapse. Chemical synaptic transmission involves the release of a neurotransmitter from ...

Binge drinking in early adults can lead to long-lasting and potentially permanent dysregulation in the brain, according to a ...

They also discovered that a single neuron can assemble structurally and functionally distinct receptors to respond to combinations of neurotransmitter signals, Sente writes in his prizewinning essay ...