Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes - think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke - ...

"The brain is an exquisite sensor of what's going on in your body," says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger. "But it requires balance. Neurons need to be active or ...

The brain has its own waste disposal system – known as the glymphatic system – that’s thought to be more active when we sleep ...

Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how ...

UVA researchers found even minor trauma can disrupt the brain’s cleanup system, allowing harmful proteins to build up over ...

Researchers uncovered an unexpected form of neural resilience: after traumatic injury, surviving retinal cells in mice grow new branches that reestablish lost connections in the brain’s visual system, ...

A new study suggests that hydrogen sulfide, a gas released by the body when you fart, could help protect the brain against ...

The study presents convincing quantitative evidence, supported by appropriate negative controls, for the presence of low-abundance glycine receptors (GlyRs) within inhibitory synapses in telencephalic ...

The device’s patterned bursts of light activated specific groups of neurons deep inside the brains of mice, and the mice ...

Researchers in Sweden have unveiled a way to create high-performance electronic electrodes using nothing more than visible ...