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

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It ...

The human brain does more than simply regulate synapses that exchange signals; individual neurons also process information through "intrinsic ...

Scientists are testing a novel blood-based method to detect Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing microvesicles that reveal how ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

The human brain processes information through adaptive mechanisms such as "synaptic plasticity" and "intrinsic plasticity." In this process, synaptic ...

Scientists from the Nencki Institute and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a key mechanism in ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

Scientists have long known that measuring brain glucose metabolism is a great way to detect declining brain function, but they haven’t yet found a non-invasive measuring tool. NAU researchers think ...

Redefining Research: This study shows that a human-based brain organoid model can mimic key brain functions such as ...

To parse foreground and background sounds, the auditory cortex of humans and ferrets share a similar hierarchical organization, but the underlying computational mechanisms are fundamentally different.

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