Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections, and as a result, in signal ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

A new study has identified a specific neural pathway that connects the brain’s processing of internal states to the formation ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital have uncovered a new cell type in the human brain. The study published ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, depending on their physical structure.

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their outgoing signals).

The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

Using lab-grown brain tissue, researchers uncovered complex patterns of neural signaling that differ subtly between healthy ...

Research finds brain changes in long COVID patients and recovered people compared to never-infected people. What does this ...

The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly from person to person. A new study appearing in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows how these differences manifest themselves in the structure of the ...