Mixed emotions make for an intricate dance, as happiness and anxiety coexist, shaped by neural networks and neurotransmitters.

Last semester, Sarah Trafton (senior, graphic design and illustration) was one of The Penn’s artist features but this semester we are featuring her again for a special reason.

Interrupting signals exchanged between tumors and the nervous system could become a critical pillar of cancer care ...

The SYNGAP1 gene, which supports the production of a protein called SynGAP (Synaptic Ras GTPase-Activating Protein), is known to play a key role in supporting the development of synapses and neural ...

Researchers have identified the mitochondrial calcium uniporter as a critical protein in the strengthening of synaptic ...

Harvard researchers have mapped and cataloged more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a ...

Love happens in the brain, where hormonal releases and brain chemicals like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin are released.

One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies ...

Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and delivering genetic material into plants – are rather divergent.

Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA) is a rare, genetic, life-threatening neurodegenerative disease with no available treatment. Troriluzole demonstrated a 50-70% slowing of SCA disease progression ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and ...