Researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large ...

Interrupting signals exchanged between tumors and the nervous system could become a critical pillar of cancer care ...

Love happens in the brain, where hormonal releases and brain chemicals like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin are released.

One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies ...

Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and delivering genetic material into plants – are rather divergent.

Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA) is a rare, genetic, life-threatening neurodegenerative disease with no available treatment. Troriluzole demonstrated a 50-70% slowing of SCA disease progression ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

As the U.S. population ages, more adults are developing thinking and memory problems, called mild cognitive impairment.

Cut off any part of this worm's body and it will regrow. This is the spectacular yet mysterious regenerative ability of ...

Hence, researchers often simulate the brain as a network of coupled neural masses, each described by a mean-field model. These models capture the essential features of neuronal populations while ...