Using a fluorescent probe that lights up when brain cells are electrically active, researchers found they can image the activity of many neurons at once, in mice brains. The technique could allow ...

Our brains are made of billions of neurons, which are connected forming complex networks. They communicate between themselves by sending electrical signals, known as action potentials, and chemical ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain, is now known to be ...

Time flows, time flies, time stands still. All these expressions show just how highly variable, depending on multiple factors, our perception of the passage of time can be. How is this subjective ...

Researchers at MIT and Boston University have teamed up to achieve the longstanding goal of imaging membrane voltage across a population of individual neurons in an awake, behaving mammal. Using a ...

Brain cells hardly ever follow their neighbors in spouting electrically charged opinions despite being wired together, two studies published January 29 in Science suggest. This fierce independence ...

Engineers developed technology to use nanoparticles to heat, manipulate cells in the brain and heart. Nanomaterials have been used in a variety of emerging applications, such as in targeted ...