What else might be hidden in the electrical language of the cells in our brains? Neuroscientists often record the activity of neurons as a series of simple events: A cell produces an electrical pulse, ...

Deep inside the developing mammalian cortex, a thin band of early-born neurons called the subplate has long puzzled ...

Every glance triggers a complex exchange of signals among millions of neurons. Some cells excite the network, others inhibit ...

A team that includes Shaun Mahony, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has received a $3.8 million grant from ...

The same neurons perform different jobsIt is said that our brains contain approximately 86 billion neurons. While this may seem like a staggering number, it is by no means "inexhaustible" when you ...

A new AI tool helps identify hidden similarities across distant species, unraveling 700 million years of cell evolution.

In the complex circuitry of the brain, a fatty substance known as myelin plays a vital role in insulating neural wiring. It coats billions of axons in the brain and makes up about one-fifth of the ...

Researchers in the United States and Spain have created living rodents with cerebral cortexes from healthy people to ...

A first-of-its-kind brain atlas. Researchers mapped 232,251 individual cells across four stages of development ...

Romance, competition, parenting, vigilance, eating. In the behavior of living creatures, there are moments when the same stimulus leads to different choices. Understanding the brain mechanisms that cr ...

Discovery could open up new avenues for studying diseases that affect the brainstem, such as spinal muscular atrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Most primate species have relatively large brains with surfaces marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case ...