Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of smart prosthetics, such as artificial limbs, joints or organs that can replace injured, damaged or amputated ...

The implications extend beyond individual well-being into the very fabric of society, with acute manifestations in classrooms ...

The sensation of profound depletion following a day of intense mental labor has long been dismissed as a subjective ...

Memories are thought to be stored in sparse groups of neurons called engrams. These are the cells that switch on during learning and can later switch on again during recall. In physiological aging and ...

Physical activity supports the same brain systems targeted in clinical treatment”— Dr. Stanford Owen GULFPORT, LA, ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

A cell-specific gene therapy has been shown to silence pain encoding neurons in mice, offering a potential alternative to opioids for treating chronic pain.

Researchers identify a specialized "satellite" language network in the cerebellum, offering new insights into how the brain ...

Scientists created an AI tool that detects a fruit fly’s courtship song as it begins and instantly switches off specific brain cells.

An EEG (electroencephalogram) is a painless test that uses small sensors placed on the scalp to measure the brain's ...

The Wiley Foundation honored research into connectomes — detailed atlases of the brain that map out thousands of neurons and ...

Stearns and Poletti present a technically impressive study that aims to uncover a deeper understanding of microsaccade function: their role in perceptual modulation and the associated temporal ...