Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.

Can artificial intelligence help decode the human brain? A new study by finds that a new AI model is capable of acting as a "digital twin" of the human brain, capable of predicting human brain ...