Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. What would it mean if it could — and how much evidence is enough?

A cross-species study in PLOS Biology shows that click trains with identical mean rates but different millisecond-scale ...

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

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

A new computational framework unifies the analysis of sensory encoding, functional connectivity, and behavioral readout in two-photon calcium imaging data, revealing distinct neuronal roles in the ...

What if you could recall just one specific memory in your brain, like flipping a switch?Turning on a happy memory.Weakening a ...

The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already are calling for new ethical guidelines. The animals may help reveal the ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been announced. The winners are Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth.The theme this time is 'optogenetics.' It is a technology that makes ...

A newly detailed brain region provides the continuous alarm signal needed to keep animals on high alert during a threat. The ...

Imagine you are at a cocktail party. The room is crowded, people are coming and going, and you can barely hear your friend as they tell you some juicy gossip about the date they went on last week. The ...

Havana syndrome refers to a cluster of mysterious neurological symptoms reported by U.S. government employees. Some experts ...

Inside the data centres built with lab-grown human brain cells - Could bio data centres powered by neurons be the key to ...