Two scientists swelled a sample of brain tissue to reveal its tangled wiring, and this incredible photograph is the result.
Human cells hold about two meters (6.6 feet) of DNA, folded and compacted to fit inside a nucleus. That packing is essential ...
A new study traced the forebrain and hindbrain to separate evolutionary lineages, then researchers used that discovery to ...
A tiny region deep within the brain has surprised scientists by revealing a remarkably sophisticated communication system.
(Eugene Mymrin/Moment RF/Getty Images) It's well known that alcohol has profound consequences on the way the brain works, and ...
Credit: Allen Institute Scientists exploring the brain’s “blue place” discovered the longest neuron ever measured in a mouse ...
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound ...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel ...
Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers has programmed these infomorphic neurons and constructed artificial ...
Together, these findings provide a detailed map of how speech sounds such as consonants and vowels are represented in the brain well before they are even spoken and how they are strung together during ...
Pavlovian fear conditioning, but not repeated foot shock alone, increases spine density and excitatory transmission on nucleus accumbens D2 medium spiny neurons.