A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions—choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

Harvard psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport often navigates challenging clinical problems by leaning on established theory. Lately ...

Watch UChicago neurobiologist Mark Sheffield and his team investigate the mechanisms of memory by studying neuron activity and connections. Their research could enhance the treatment of memory-related ...

We must turn education inside out. What Inside Out Really Means ... Much of my work has focused on executive function—the brain’s management system. It includes skills like attention control ...

Made up of a complex network of cells called neurons, the brain is the body's most complicated organ, and also the most important. This massive ball of tissue inside your skull is responsible for ...

Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal multiple potential causes from inflammation to a leaky blood-brain barrier.

These cells share important molecular and functional characteristics with neural stem cells of the brain. Peripheral neural stem cells have the same cell morphology, self-renewal and differentiation ...

When we “see” a combination of blue and red wavelengths, the brain bends the visual spectrum into a circle that joins blue and red at the point of purple. You might be today years old when you ...

Allen Institute researchers Leila Elabbady and Clay Reid examine brain mapping data from the MICrONS project. (Allen Institute Photo) Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date WASHINGTON -- Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...