Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...

Researchers have developed the first activity-based maps of the prefrontal cortex, challenging traditional descriptions of ...

Her research group recorded and analysed the activity of more than 24,000 neurons in awake mice and created the first ...

Deep inside the brain, every thought and memory begins with a burst of electrical activity. For years, scientists have tried ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

“Language is a huge field, and we are novices in this. We know a lot about how different areas of the brain are involved in linguistic tasks, but the details are not very clear,” says Mohsen Jamali, a ...

The ability to make simple reaching motions or drive a car depends on the brains ability to guide action in a region of the brain called cerebellum. When the interaction of the cells within the ...

Implantable technologies have significantly improved our ability to study and even modulate the activity of neurons in the brain, but neurons in the spinal cord are harder to study in action. "If we ...

It's hard to take electrical measurements of what a single neuron is doing, especially while it's still alive and wired up to its fellows. To move beyond historically difficult and damaging methods of ...

Pain-sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new ...