Scientists discovered that the molecule CaMKII helps neurons encode information over seconds, a key process in learning. This ...

The mechanisms behind intellectual disabilities and autism remain largely unknown. However, researchers from the labs of Prof ...

The discovery that certain smells can be linked to specific neurons is helping us understand how the brain encodes concepts ...

Neuroscientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have determined how a brain cell surface molecule shapes the way certain ...

F RUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term ...

neurons and their elaborate processes can be visualized in 3D and basic properties such as neurotransmitter type and connected partner neurons are available for the whole brain connectome.

Researchers have developed a gene therapy technology that uses magnetic fields to switch groups of neurons on and off, ...

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and ...

Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images of slices of the fly’s brain. The researchers and their colleagues stitched ...

Explore how CP-AMPA receptors regulate neuron selectivity and impact brain conditions like autism and epilepsy in a new Johns ...

Alzheimer’s disease may cause brain damage in two stages, according to new research supported by the National Institutes of ...