Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...
Your brain’s neuroplasticity could get a boost later in life—thanks to your gut.
The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...
Summary: A team of biomedical engineers has uncovered a specialized biological circuit that allows the “thinking” parts of the brain to actively reshape how the “sensing” parts process identical ...
The human brain contains billions of neurons, specialized nerve cells that communicate with each other via electrical and ...
Inherited retinal degenerations are a diverse group of genetic disorders that result in progressive vision loss. Advances in ...
Animals don't experience the world passively. A hawk tilts its head to track prey. A person leans forward to read a sign.
Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account ...
Animals don't experience the world passively. A hawk tilts its head to track prey. A person leans forward to read a sign.
Researchers identified VIP inhibitory neurons in Huntington’s disease and used optogenetics to restore motor neuron activity in mice.
The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...