A two-stage RAG-LLM pipeline for roadmapping neuroscience research in operational environments
For more than two decades, crews at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert have written daily logs ...
Tag: Neuroscience
New Toolkit Puts Simulated Neural Circuits to the Test
The central premise behind the Computation-through-Dynamics Toolkit rests on a conceptual shift that has been gaining momentum in systems neuroscience ...
Motor cortex holds two hidden movement programs for the leg
Long-duration microstimulation in rats reveals spatially segregated Advance and Elevation programs that steer the hindlimb forward or upward during walking.
Neuroscience Journals Lack Consistent Rules for Reporting Race and Ethnicity, Review Finds
A new review of 27 leading neuroscience journals finds inconsistent and often absent guidance on reporting race and ethnicity population ...
Memory as a Selection Process: New Framework Rethinks How Experiences Become Lasting Knowledge
The distinction drawn between selective stabilization and relational integration invites comparison with long-standing debates in memory science about why some ...
Optogenetics Pioneers Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on light-gated ...
Music Helps AI Read Brain Signals of Mental Fatigue, Study Finds
A preliminary EEG study found that artificial intelligence detected mental fatigue far more accurately when participants' brain activity was recorded ...
Brain Cells Can Be Reversed to Immaturity by Seizure-Like Activity Only After a Developmental Switch
A new mouse study shows that electroconvulsive treatment can drive hippocampal neurons back to an immature state only from about ...
New spatial sequencing method maps RNA turnover kinetics across the mouse brain
Spatial NT-seq combines metabolic RNA labeling with in situ chemical recoding to co-map newly synthesized and pre-existing RNAs, revealing the ...
Just 20 Neurons Were Enough to Set off a Learned Movement in Mice
UC San Diego researchers showed that artificially activating just twenty selected neurons in the mouse motor cortex can trigger the ...
Oxytocin in the Brain’s Septum Lets Mice Learn Safe Foods From Friends
New research in PLOS Biology shows that oxytocin receptor signaling in the dorsal lateral septum is essential for mice to ...
Your Brain Can Learn Without Practice, New Study Reveals
A new iScience study shows that visual perceptual learning can proceed for days after a single training session with no ...
Hidden Symmetry Found in the Brain’s Messy Head-Direction Circuits
A new Nature Neuroscience study shows that seemingly disordered mammalian head-direction circuits conceal the hidden circular symmetry of continuous attractor ...
Hidden Biases in Brain Single-Nucleus Sequencing Could Distort Brain Cell Atlases, Study Warns
A systematic benchmarking of mouse brain single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals that post-mortem harvest, methanol fixation, and sequencing platform choice each ...
New AI Network Reads Brain Signals to Decode Imagined Movements with Record Accuracy
Researchers have developed a graph-based deep learning network that decodes imagined movements from EEG signals with accuracies of up to ...
Parasitic fly judges cricket songs by rhythm structure, not just pulse rate
New research shows the parasitic fly Ormia ochracea recognizes host cricket songs by evaluating combinations of temporal features rather than ...
Bullfrog brains found to brew their own backup fuel when glucose runs dry
University of Missouri researchers found that bullfrog brains can produce ketone bodies locally when glucose is scarce, a built-in backup ...
Fruit fly brain study reveals how working memory is written and switched off
Researchers at NYU Langone Health have shown that fruit flies store short-term odor memories in a gated split attractor network ...
Deep breathing reshapes brain networks to trigger psychedelic-like states
A new brain-imaging study presented at the ECNP Congress shows that intensive breathwork reduces cerebral blood flow by up to ...
Graphene Oxide Nanosheets Deliver Neuropeptide Y to Erase Fear Memories in Rats
Scientists have used graphene oxide nanosheets to deliver neuropeptide Y into the rat amygdala, selectively erasing fear memories through Y1 ...
