How We Build a Better Future is a rare thing: a serious book on public policy that has also launched a movement. In the US, ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

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Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

We demonstrate that optical third-harmonic generation (THG) microscopy enables high-resolution live brain imaging without the need for external contrast agents. We find that the specific geometry and ...