Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. Researchers found that both amyloid beta and inflammation converge on the same ...

Picture a mammal that can deliberately shut down most of its brain functions for most of the year, then wake up in the spring ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Scientists have mapped the sensory neurons in bone for the first time, and identified their dual role in reporting and ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right side can, after a turn, become a headwind. To stay on course, the fly's ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

Menopause is linked to a loss of grey matter in regions involved with memory and emotion, study suggests.

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...