Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

As our behavior is determined by our brains, understanding which neurological circuits are involved at the beginning of the ...

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Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...

Virginia Tech researchers have discovered an indication hidden in the brain that may help doctors identify children suffering ...

As an emerging technology in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), graph neural networks (GNNs) are deep learning models designed to process graph-structured data. Currently, GNNs are effective ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...