Growing neurons rely on chemical cues to find their targets, but new research shows that the brain’s physical properties help ...

Scientists used a compact AI model to predict how visual cortex neurons respond to images, revealing hidden patterns in perception.

Despite the naysayers, research into the gut-autism axis is producing useful results and helping kids with autism feel less ...

The dominant theory in neuroscience has been that the sensory processing circuits in our brain are finalized in early ...

The results include a comparison between two different basis functions for temporal selectivity and how these generate different predictions for the dynamics of neural populations. The conclusions are ...

A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

Older adults with exceptional memories continue to grow new brain cells. A recent study published in the journal Nature shows ...

The team is led by Leanne Li of The Francis Crick Institute in London, England. Her research combines cancer biology and neuroscience to investigate how cancer communicates with peripheral nerves ...

When life ruptures your sense of self, creativity is how the brain rewrites the story. Here's the neuroscience behind why it ...

Researchers from Midwestern University in Arizona say the technique can reduce chronic stress, which may make the disease ...

Scientists identify the protein DeltaFosB as the "master switch" that rewires the brain's memory and reward circuits, driving chronic cocaine addiction and relapse.