Stories by Mo Costandi

A discovery about the body's cellular waste system could help us erase unwanted ink

Watching neurons guide live mouse activities may help understand diseases like Parkinson’s 

A transport vehicle the size of a virus may ferry chemotherapies and other molecular cargo through the imposing blood–brain barrier

The biggest study of its kind offers the best evidence to date linking the sport to mood and cognitive impairments

In mouse experiments, scientists bring back the “critical period” of early in life, in which the ability to process sounds emerges

The neural version of a texting app anticipates what comes next when we hear speech

Widely interconnected regions detect the status of friends and acquaintances

Two distinct brain regions cooperate to simulate possible routes and plan a path through them

Physicians need more than the question: “How many fingers am I holding up?”

Citizen-science volunteers helped to trace a map of the neural connections involved in detecting the direction of moving objects 

When not misfolded, prions lend a hand in formation neuronal connections

A growing body of work shows that the brain has different systems and mechanisms to respond to certain kinds of threats and physiological changes in the body

A shrinking cortex region is linked to sleep disturbances and memory impairment

A rapid onset of slow-oscillation brain waves has now been linked to anesthesia's comalike state

Brain scans during sleep were successfully used to decode some of the visual content of subjects' dreams

People who report sleeping restlessly, feeling tired during the day and taking sleep medication were more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's within the next two years, a study finds

Children could benefit from personalized lessons based on brain scans

Research on the link between implicit race preference and brain activity could be used to prevent unintended consequences of race bias