Understanding why we always have room for dessert could lead to new treatments for obesity, researchers have revealed.

You lean back from the dinner table, feeling like you physically couldn’t fit another bite in – but then someone offers pie ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Neurons found in one of the oldest regions of the brain may control when we stop eating a meal, new research in mice hints.

Discover how your mind filters out distractions. New research reveals the specialized neural mechanisms that actively block ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

The research could ultimately lead to targeted treatments for alcohol-related sleep loss, helping people recover from alcohol ...