Researchers at UT San Antonio have uncovered new details about electrical signals happening within nerve cells, deepening ...

A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning ...

Scientists have identified a previously unseen layered organization inside one of the brain’s most important memory hubs.

For decades, neuroscientists have been trying to pinpoint the neural underpinnings of behavior and decision-making. Past ...

The links between neurons are crucial to the brain, and brain cells can reorganize they way they are linked together in a ...

An international collaboration between researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, the University of Tokyo, and University College London has demonstrated that self-organization ...

A high-speed “zap-and-freeze” method is giving scientists their clearest view yet of how brain cells send messages. By ...

How animals may modify their behavior depending on their context has been modeled mathematically by two RIKEN neuroscientists. Their simple but biologically plausible model could shed light on mental ...

Head trauma, and many neurological disorders like epilepsy, stroke, or Parkinson's disease, for example, can cause nerve cell damage or death. It was long thought that neurons could not be regenerated ...

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More than 1 million Americans live with tremors, slowed movement and speech changes caused by Parkinson's disease—a ...

Scientists have pinpointed a group of cells in the brain whose activity could help explain the ability to share another’s pain. Why can we feel other people’s pain? A recent study in rats investigates ...