A decade-long search for the "sensor" responsible for our ability to feel mechanical pain is finally over. The discovery could lead to new drugs.

A new tiny, wireless device can record the activity of a single neuron in the brain. It could help in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases.

Rheobase neurons focus on keeping you headed in the right direction over long periods of time, new research in mice shows.

Researchers have used lasers to "see" mice neurons while they were learning, which adds to evidence that learning takes the whole brain.

Neurons in the frontal lobe contain stable short-term memory information even as the brain cells change their "code" for locking in memories.

Controlling one type of neuron may reboot brain plasticity, the brain's ability to make new connections to adapt to its environment, research in rats shows.

A new microendoscope the width of just a few human hairs produces better images than current scopes by first taking "awful" ones.

New treatments may result from identifying a likely culprit behind the brain build-up that ties all neurodegenerative diseases together.

"Until we can understand each component, we can't expect to take the brain apart and put it back together again in order to figure out how it works."