What began with scientists trying to understand how a tiny green alga senses light has transformed neuroscience. The discovery of light-sensitive proteins paved the way for optogenetics, allowing ...

Researchers have built and validated a new general-purpose biophysical model of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons that ...

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A new study traced the forebrain and hindbrain to separate evolutionary lineages, then researchers used that discovery to ...

General anesthesia remains one of the most routine yet least understood interventions in modern medicine. Every day, millions ...

Sleep drive neurons in mice may help the brain track wakefulness and trigger deeper recovery sleep after long hours awake.

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Understand how the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine connects optogenetics, the endocannabinoid system, and advances in ...

The glymphatic system clears cerebral waste, yet strategies to enhance its function remain elusive. Here, we show that 40.68 ...

High-performance brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) rely on stable neural representations, yet brain functional impairments ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for discoveries leading to ...

A 39-year-old man, who was an Iraq War veteran with exposure to burn pits, was admitted to the hospital with hypertension, ...