Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

A neurologist explains why the brain strengthens much like muscle –\u00A0through challenge, rest and novelty – and how simple ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published today in Genomic Psychiatry , Dr. Maria Margarita Behrens recounts an extraordinary scientific journey that wound through four countries and multiple ...

Researchers used EEG to study high-dose inhaled 5-MeO-DMT in humans. Unlike other psychedelics, the drug reduced brain ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this ...

Deep inside the brain, every thought and memory begins with a burst of electrical activity. For years, scientists have tried ...