A zebra finch can fit in the palm of your hand, but its brain is doing something that looks almost unruly. Inside one part of ...

For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the ...

Northwestern University researchers have taken a step toward bridging electronics and the human brain ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

How does the gut talk to the brain? A new study identifies polysaccharides and peptidoglycans as the key bacterial signals ...

Figure 1. Diagram showing an electrically active cell in a neuronal culture and the process of recording its transmembrane potential for further analysis Neurons are cells that enable the brain to ...

A new NYU Langone Health study reveals that astrocytes, long considered support cells, create organized brain-wide communication networks in mice. These astrocytic pathways connect specific brain ...

If humans or animals eat something that causes them to feel unwell, they subsequently avoid this food source. Until now, it ...