Researchers identify key rules for how visual cortex neurons organize thousands of synaptic inputs based on distance and clustering.

Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in processing basic features of what the ...

Two types of neurons in the skin may be particularly important for how the brain interprets social contact between people, according to a new study led by Linköping University in Sweden. Knowledge of ...

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By tracking glutamate in real time, scientists can finally see how neurons process ...

Experimental electron micrograph of purified synaptic vesicles (upper). Synaptic vesicles automatically identified in the image with a new computer program are highlighted with different colours and ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

Researchers say findings may have relevance to understanding cell biological pathways that contribute to nerve repair after injury or neurodegeneration.

A tiny circuit, printed from ink made of atom-thin crystals, just fired electrical pulses that a living brain cell recognized ...

Ever wonder when you touch something, how the brain is able to know it? A generally accepted view embraced by neuroscientists is that different parts of the brain are responsible for certain functions ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders are often characterized by fearful responses in specific ...