A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

The brain is a marvel of efficiency, honed by thousands of years of evolution so it can adapt and thrive in a rapidly ...

Researchers have pinpointed specific brain cells that control how animals react to social defeat, offering new insight into the biology of dominance and submission.

“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number ...

The most basic assumption about how psychedelic medicine works is at least partially flawed: Psychedelics are altering not ...

A Nature Neuroscience study finds that special "illusion-encoding" neurons in the brain's visual cortex fill in missing ...

The signaling mechanisms underlying the transition from stem cells to olfactory neurons has been described. Cellular differentiation of stem cells into specialized cells requires many steps, including ...

Researchers have announced the the creation of an artificial neuron with electrical functions that closely mirror those of ...

MIT scientists find that motor neuron growth increased significantly over 5 days in response to biochemical (left) and mechanical (right) signals related to exercise. The green ball represents cluster ...

What are the roles of norepinephrine and the locus coeruleus (LC) in promoting anxiety-like behavior through the basolateral amygdala (BLA)? The LC regulates arousal and stress reactions, especially ...