Scientists at UC San Diego, have uncovered processes that explain how our brains record information, which could help boost new discoveries.

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

Findings challenge the idea that neurons follow a single learning strategy and offer a new perspective on how the brain ...

New research reveals that individual neurons follow multiple learning rules simultaneously, challenging the long-held belief that synaptic plasticity operates uniformly throughout the brain.

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been one of medicine's most difficult challenges, limiting ...

This valuable study shows that locomotion-related modulations in the mouse visual cortex are not uniform but primarily affect neurons in muscarinic receptor-negative patches, which receive projections ...

See α-Synuclein. Candidate tracer SY08 detects α-synuclein deposits in the brainstem (right) and parietal cortex (left) of ...

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

There are two main types of neurons in the cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the brain: excitatory, which make up 80% of neurons, or inhibitory, the remaining 20%. Of inhibitory neurons in the ...

Chocolate isn't just a sweet indulgence — it's a complex experience that triggers a fascinating response inside your brain. From the moment it touches your ...