Neuroscience

Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains...

Scientists showed that people who have a variant of a longevity gene, called KLOTHO, have improved brain skills such as...

Something — or some things — in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in...

Researchers have identified two types of neurons that enable the spinal cord to control skilled forelimb movement. The first is...

Our brain activity is more similar to that of speakers we are listening to when we can predict what they...

Researchers discovered how to switch brain cells on or off with light pulses by using special proteins from microbes to...

Researchers at UNSW Australia have for the first time used electrical pulses delivered from a cochlear implant to deliver gene...

Neuroscientists have discovered a brain pathway that underlies the emotional behaviours critical for survival. New research by the University of...

New research published today out of the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) uncovers a mechanism to promote growth...

Harvard neuroscientists have made a discovery that turns 160 years of neuroanatomy on its head. Photo Credits: Daniel Berger and...

A groundbreaking study published in PLOS ONE by Prof. Iris Berent of Northeastern University and researchers at Harvard Medical School...

Synapses are the points of contact at which information is transmitted between neurons. Without them, we would not be able...

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience have recently discovered the process behind this phenomenon. The brain, it turns...

By tracking brain activity when an animal stops to look around its environment, neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University believe...