Scientists have discovered a new brain neuron that may help to curb hunger signals, potentially offering new means of ...

By Alain Cappy, Professor Emeritus of Electronics, University of Lille The brain remains the king of computers. The most ...

If you ever tried cramming all your learning in one night before the exam, you know it doesn't usually work. Surprisingly, ...

The study, published in the journal Neuron, marks a significant departure from traditional brain mapping methods. Usually, scientists study brain activity either during simple laboratory tasks or when ...

Researchers have developed tiny, wireless devices capable of wrapping around individual neurons, potentially aiding in the ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...

Recent technological advances opened exciting possibilities for neuroscience, enabling the collection of increasingly ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers targeting a group of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases have found success ...

This important paper takes a novel approach to the problem of automatically reconstructing long-range axonal projections from stacks of images. The key innovation is to separate the identification of ...

Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that may trigger ALS’s earliest stages, identifying proteins that mislocalize, causing ...

The former Scotland rugby star’s My Name’5 Doddie Foundation charity was set up to try and find a cure for motor neuron ...