The human brain contains billions of neurons, specialized nerve cells that communicate with each other via electrical and ...

It's a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is ...

Scientists discovered that a key brain signal may have been pointing researchers in the wrong direction, potentially changing ...

Anxiety disorders affect more than 300 million people globally. Several brain regions have been linked to anxiety, but how ...

Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...

Researchers recorded neural activity and blood flow in mice. Opposing neuron populations predicted blood flow more accurately ...

To map the mammalian brain and its various functions with increasing precision, neuroscientists rely on high-resolution imaging techniques and other advanced experimental tools. These include ...

Researchers identified VIP inhibitory neurons in Huntington’s disease and used optogenetics to restore motor neuron activity in mice.

UC Berkeley researchers have identified a specific brain circuit in mice that controls how growth hormone floods the body ...

An emerging notion that astrocytes directly participate in behavior, cognition, and brain computation by actively shaping ...

Smaller plastic particles have more effects on neurons, the key information processing cells of the brain, new research from the University of Eastern Finland shows. In the study, neuronal cells were ...