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

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a ...

Using a mathematical model, scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

From the smallest fragment of brain tissue, the intricate blueprint of the entire brain is beginning to emerge. Researchers ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

In military service members with a history of repetitive blast exposure, researchers found that higher blast exposure ...