A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Summary: Scientists have discovered specialized IC-encoder neurons that make the brain “see” illusions, such as squares or triangles that aren’t truly there. These neurons receive top-down ...

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses. Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, ...

A study by the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden suggests what every parent with children who scream all the time ...

Neurons' ability to change their behavior in response to new stimuli is what makes learning possible. And even neurons' ...

Using lasers, researchers triggered optical illusion signals in mouse brains, uncovering how the brain fills in missing ...

Researchers found a powerful protein that helps strengthen the messaging system of the brain. The discovery could lead to new ...

A collaborative French–Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

Several months after contracting Covid-19, symptoms can persist in some patients. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur show ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

Researchers who induced strokes in mice and then transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains found that neurons ...