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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The brain is a vast, densely interconnected network of neurons computing in parallel. Watching these computations unfold in real time could reveal how the brain processes sensation and guides behavior ...