Researchers uncovered how shifting levels of a brain protein called KCC2 can reshape the way cues become linked with rewards, sometimes making habits form more quickly or more powerfully than expected ...

A tiny strip of printed nanomaterials fired an electrical spike, and a living mouse brain cell answered back. That exchange, ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

UCLA researchers created a single-cell map of the developing human neocortex in Down syndrome during a critical window of ...

Some scientists are wondering if we could mimic the energy-efficient processes of the human brain to improve AI systems. A ...

A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a ...

Researchers discover a hydraulic link between abdominal muscles and brain health, showing how core movement flushes neural ...

A new study just brought us closer to an answer, and what they found challenges some long-held assumptions about the aging brain's capacity for renewal. Using advanced single-cell sequencing ...

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips A few weeks ago, a research paper out of MIT (the college) crossed my desk ...

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

For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the ...

The embryonic receptor "Smoothened" regulates dopamine and acetylcholine timing to control learning and habit formation in ...