The links between neurons are crucial to the brain, and brain cells can reorganize they way they are linked together in a ...

For the first time, researchers identified the function of the CASKIN2 protein, which plays a key role in precise signal ...

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other ...

As information zings from cell to cell inside the brain, bursts of electricity spur its transmission. At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), scientists have turned their attention to the tiny pores ...

Scientists used one of the world's fastest supercomputers to create an unusually detailed virtual model of the mouse cortex, a "digital brain" with nearly 10 million neurons and 26 billion synapses ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

This valuable study provides solid evidence for deficits in aversive taste learning and taste coding in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorders. Specifically, the authors found that Shank3 knockout ...

Fed signals pause on rate cuts as investors navigate data darkness and leadership change After three consecutive interest rate cuts, investors now confront an uncertain U.S. monetary policy outlook ...