How does the brain juggle so much information? A mouse study suggests neurons can switch jobs as memory demands change.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurological treatment that involves inserting an electrode into the brain and using electric pulses to stimulate therapeutic effects. So far, researchers have used ...

The collective electrical activity of many neurons can be seen as waves propagating through the brain from one region to the ...

A patient under general anesthesia may appear completely disconnected from the outside world. But inside the brain, neurons could still be "listening" to stories, sorting words into categories, and ...

Diana Kwon is a freelance science journalist based in Berlin. It is a dogma in neuroscience that certain brain cells respond in the same way to the same thing. Specific neurons always fire, for ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing artificial neurons that can actually communicate with real ones. These flexible ...