‘Tired and wired’ is a common feeling following an all-nighter. While the body is tired, the brain is giddily active. Although chronic sleep loss is well-studied, brief sleep loss- such as when ...

A new study identifies PTCHD1-AS as a key non-coding gene that shapes social and repetitive behaviors in autism without affecting cognition.

A study by Professor Carlos Matute of the EHU reinforces a paradigm shift in neuroscience: Myelin goes from being a ...

As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to events and the activity they cause in the brain. Neuroscientists believe that ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

Researchers have pinpointed a long non-coding gene that plays a distinct role in the social and stereotypic repetitive ...