Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping ...

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the ...

New Salk Institute research reveals how aging brains accumulate iron, leading to neuronal vulnerability and diseases like ...

Neurons tucked away in an ancient part of the brain control the ability to pay attention by suppressing distractions and ...

The researchers found that specific neurons increased their electrical firing rate just before certain components of speech, ...

A new study constructs the first 3D single-cell brain atlas of the lamprey, uncovering the 450-million-year-old molecular blueprint of vertebrates.

Scientists from the Institute of Integrated Cellular and Material Sciences at Kyoto University, together with colleagues, ...

The activity of neurons in the mammalian brain is known to contribute to the development of the brain at the early stages of development. While past neuroscientific studies have gathered evidence ...

Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study 1 of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...

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Language-Specific Hardware: At the single-neuron level inside the hippocampus, individual cells are largely language-specific ...