Neuroscience

Is it possible to change the amount of information the brain can store? Maybe, according to a new international study...

New Weizmann Institute research may bring the idea of sleep learning one step closer to reality. The research, which appeared...

People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are at increased risk of converting to Alzheimer's disease within a few years, but...

Imagine being able to recognize your car as your own but never being able to remember where you parked it....

The motor neurons that innervate muscle fibres are essential for motor activity. Their degeneration in many diseases causes paralysis and...

Researchers have brought ultra-fast, nano-scale data storage within striking reach, using technology that mimics the human brain. Dr Sharath Sriram,...

Just look into the light: not quite, but researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology...

For years, neuroscientists have been trying to develop tools that would allow them to clearly view the brain's circuitry in...

Neuroscientists have found that a gene mutation that arose more than half a million years ago may be key to...

Roughly 100 trillion connections between neurons make it possible for the brain to function. Psychology Professor Brian Wandell's group has...

Amy Griffin, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Delaware, has received a five-year, $1.78 million...

Despite the barrage of visual information the brain receives, it retains a remarkable ability to focus on important and relevant...

According to a generally-accepted model of synaptic plasticity, a neuron that communicates with others of the same kind emits an...

Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations, previously believed that only the brain could perform. This is according to a...

A highly accurate model of how neurons behave when performing complex movements could aid in the design of robotic limbs...

How nerve cells within the brain communicate with each other over long distances has puzzled scientists for decades. The way...

Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation,...

Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably...

The first memory-enhancing devices could be implanted within four years Lawrence Livermore engineer Vanessa Tolosa holds up a silicon wafer...

Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco have shown that a loss of cells in the...