memory formation hinges on connections between groups of engram cells, which are neurons thought to capture and store ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

A research team at Stanford University has become the first to assemble a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish by ...

Scientists used advanced cryo-EM imaging to reveal how glutamate activates brain receptors, paving the way for new ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

Scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and about people, places and things ...

In 1979, biologist Francis Crick claimed it would be impossible to create an accurate diagram of the brain’s wiring and neuronal activity—even within just a cubic millimeter of brain tissue. Now, a ...

A new book by the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the connections between brain biology and political beliefs.

A scientific team has used millions of human cells to build neural circuits in the laboratory that sense painful stimuli and ...

Researchers have successfully developed nerve grafts, currently being trialed as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, that ...

The winners of this year’s Canadian science prizes are all based in the United States, where Trump-era cutbacks to research ...

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a machine-learning algorithm that could enhance our ...