The cerebral cortex processes sensory information via a network of neural connections. But how are these signals adjusted to refine our perceptions? A team from the University of Geneva ...

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

French and Canadian scientists reactivate mitochondria energy in neurons and successfully restore memory in mice with ...

A study by the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden suggests what every parent with children who scream all the time ...

A collaborative French–Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

Researchers found a powerful protein that helps strengthen the messaging system of the brain. The discovery could lead to new ...

Researchers identified neurons in the mouse primary visual cortex that encode illusions that receive information from higher ...

Researchers uncovered a new subtype of hypothalamic neurons, called Crabp1 neurons, that serve as powerful regulators of energy expenditure.

A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in our food consumption ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.