How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a ...

The brain never rests: even during deep sleep or under anesthesia, it maintains rhythmic electrical activity known as slow ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

While doctors have significantly refined their techniques over the subsequent 150 years— ether made patients throw up and was flammable enough to cause mid-surgery explosions —there are still ...

Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which ...

The human brain, a complex organ, consumes a significant amount of energy despite its small size. Neurons communicate rapidly, enabling quick reactions and efficient information processing. The brain ...

A study using CRISPR restored brain connectivity and made the brain more resilient to seizures, which are often seen in a ...

The brain isn’t wired for what’s good for us, it’s wired for what feels safe and efficient,” explains Courtney Shrum, LMHC, ...