Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

A recent study published in the journal Cell provides evidence that the human brain uses a shared organizational map, or ...

To map the mammalian brain and its various functions with increasing precision, neuroscientists rely on high-resolution imaging techniques and other advanced experimental tools. These now include high ...

A new study constructs the first 3D single-cell brain atlas of the lamprey, uncovering the 450-million-year-old molecular ...

Consider the brake. Not the engine, which gets all the attention, but the brake, the quiet thing that decides how fast a system is allowed to go.

Orange-arrow loop: Intracranial electrophysiological data are captured by macro-microelectrodes from the subject’s brain and streamed to the data acquisition device and a host computer, where the data ...

A complete fruit fly brain map shows how reflexes, brain signals, muscles, and organs work together to control movement.

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the ...

Researchers identified VIP inhibitory neurons in Huntington’s disease and used optogenetics to restore motor neuron activity in mice.

Cell death in dementia has long posed a frustrating problem. Toxic proteins pile up inside neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and ...