Master-control area integrates information about hunger, a food’s tastiness and more — and can even drive intake of plastic ...

Scientists at Stanford have found that hyperactivity in the brain’s reticular thalamic nucleus may drive autism-like ...

Using lasers, researchers triggered optical illusion signals in mouse brains, uncovering how the brain fills in missing details in vision.

Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have created a miniaturized microscope for real-time, high-resolution, ...

Results reported in a preprint connect localized signals in the brain to aging-related changes in immune cells in mouse ...

One fundamental feature of neurodegenerative diseases is a breakdown in communication. Even before brain cells die, the ...

The first complete activity map of the brain has been unveiled by a large international collaboration of neuroscientists. The ...

Stanford scientists reversed autism-like behaviors in mice by calming an overactive brain circuit, pointing to future ...

Scientists may have identified a way to detect the earliest biological signs of Alzheimer’s disease, long before the onset of ...

An international group of neuroscientists joined forces to produce a landmark neural map, which revealed that decision-making lights up the entire brain.

Researchers mapped activity in 621,733 neurons, revealing how vision, choice, movement, and reward signals spread across brain regions.