Brain tumors have long been treated as rogue invaders: growing, spreading, and resisting treatment on their own. But new ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain, is now known to be ...

Scientists have discovered how stress can lead to serious mental health problems. To better understand the function of type I ...

Fixing the balance of a single brain circuit erased anxiety and social deficits in mice, revealing a powerful new target for ...

Our brains are made of billions of neurons, which are connected forming complex networks. They communicate between themselves by sending electrical signals, known as action potentials, and chemical ...

The representation of individual memories in a recurrent neural network can be efficiently differentiated using chaotic recurrent dynamics.

Perineuronal nets, rigid structures that hold certain neurons in place, affect a surprising amount of brain activity, including some associated with chronic pain. Neuroscientists, being interested in ...

Researchers have found that an extra copy of a gene in Down syndrome patients causes improper development of neurons in mice. Researchers from the University of Michigan have found that an extra copy ...

Scientists just taught hundreds of thousands of neurons in a dish to play Pong. Using a series of strategically timed and placed electrical zaps, the neurons not only learned the game in a virtual ...

When mice rest, individual neurons fire in seconds-long, coordinated cascades, triggering activity across the brain, according to new research. Previously, this was thought to be a relatively random ...