It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau - a protein known ...

Lab-grown neurons with artificially controlled connections may become a useful alternative to animal testing, particularly as we learn how to accurately characterize their behavior. A research team at ...

The human brain is made up of billions of nerve cells (neurons) that communicate with each other in vast, interconnected ...

A collaborative study led by Professor Vittoria Raffa at the University of Pisa and Assistant Professor Fabian Raudzus ...

The brain doesn't merely register time—it structures it, according to new research from the Kavli Institute for Systems ...

In the complex world of neuroscience, Huntington's disease remains a cruel mystery. It slowly strips away a person’s ability ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of ...

Prototype-based learning (PbL) using a winner-take-all (WTA) network based on minimum Euclidean distance (ED-WTA) is an intuitive approach to multiclass classification. By constructing meaningful ...

Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never previously visited. New research shows how they may find their way there and back.

Closed-loop electricalstimulation of brain structures is one of the most promising techniques to suppress epileptic seizures in drug-resistant refractory patients who are also ineligible to ablative ...