Scientists at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), in collaboration with ZEISS and MetaCell, have ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease with no cure and limited treatment options. One of the earliest signs of ALS is overactive brain signals known as ...

Neurons, the uber-connected nerve cells that act as a main switchboard for the brain, are central to some incredibly ...

Communication begins long before children learn to speak. Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan have now uncovered how early brain activity helps build developing ...

Since then, many more researchers have reported evidence for neurons changing how they respond to certain stimuli or ...

The brain is often described as a dense forest of connections, and for years scientists have searched for ways to trim that ...

A new method of CCM using which connections between neurons can be inferred based on the causal relationships between spike train data. Understanding the brain’s functional architecture is a ...

Researchers find signs of awareness when patients were under anesthesia ...

Researchers discover a neural switch in the medial septum that commands the brain to retrieve recent memories, shedding light ...

If you ask a child to draw an animal that doesn't exist, they'll often cobble together components from real ones—say, the ...