Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

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

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

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst ...

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

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

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

In a first, this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a brain stimulation device designed to treat depression at home. The approval of the first such device for home depression ...

Brain-meningeal immunity is increasingly recognized as a central player in the complex network of interactions within the central nervous system (CNS).