What if we could peer into the brain and watch how it organizes information as we act, perceive, or make decisions? A new study has introduced a method that does exactly this—not just by looking at ...

Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily ...

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

In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new study. In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve ...

TREM2 created quite the buzz at this year’s AD/PD meeting, held April 1-5 in Vienna. In the wake of a TREM2 agonist’s demise, scientists presented optimistic findings from early phase trials of a ...

Scientists have created a single artificial neuron that can mimic activity from different regions of the brain, marking a step toward machines that sense and respond to the world like humans. The ...

The human brain contains nearly 86 billion neurons, constantly exchanging messages like an immense social media network, but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and ...

What goes wrong first in the Alzheimer’s disease brain? Scientists led by Marc Aurel Busche of the U.K. Dementia Research Institute at University College London may have an answer. In the May 7 Neuron ...

Early brain development is a biological black box. While scientists have devised multiple ways to record electrical signals in adult brains, these techniques don’t work for embryos. A team at Harvard ...