Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes - think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke - ...

Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may ...

Figure 1: Odour-outcome association task in mice. To classify these response profiles, we used principal component analysis (PCA) followed by unsupervised, hierarchical clustering. This yielded three ...

Researchers have unveiled a breakthrough technology that could transform the way scientists build and study lab-grown brain ...

An interactive toolbox for standardizing, validating, simulating, reducing, and exploring detailed biophysical models that can be used to reveal how morpho-electric properties map to dendritic and ...

Closely related dopamine-releasing neurons in the olfactory bulb behave in fundamentally different ways depending on their physical structure.

As a psychiatrist and empath, I’ve always been intrigued by the science of empathy. Source: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay Research has shown that our brain has a specialized group of cells called mirror ...

Like ivy plants that send runners out searching for something to cling to, the brain’s neurons send out shoots that connect with other neurons throughout the organ. A new digital reconstruction method ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is probably one of the most devastating diagnoses that we should all hope to never hear. Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, or motor neuron disease, ALS is a prog ...