Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across longer timescales.

Researchers in the Jonas group at ISTA applied this question to the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory ...

DNA damage from inflammation outpaces the cells’ ability to self-repair. The finding, in human brain cells and mice, could ...

Scientists have created a new way to map how brain cells connect by assigning each neuron a unique molecular “barcode.” Using ...

The findings suggest the brain is more active and capable during unconsciousness than previously thought. The human brain ...

This may sound crazy, but scientists use blood to build soft neural interfaces in the brain, and then control them with light ...

Researchers at Princeton University have developed a hybrid biocomputing platform that combines living brain ...

New findings reveal that certain areas of the brain influence how neurons transmit signals and control their range.

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

The way that the sense of smell works is that olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are wired up to olfactory receptors (ORs) in ...