To map the mammalian brain and its various functions with increasing precision, neuroscientists rely on high-resolution imaging techniques and other advanced experimental tools. These include ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new insights into how high gamma activity—an informative, widely studied ...

How does APOE4 cause Alzheimer's? A new study identifies the Nell2 protein as the driver of neuron shrinkage and brain ...

Scientists have found that your brain separates memories into “what” and “where/when” using two different groups of neurons.

Where does imagination come from? A new fMRI study in Neuron reveals that mental imagery emerges from the brain's association ...

WASHINGTON – A new finding from researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center shows that the learning process of associating cues with rewards can be altered by increased or decreased activity ...

At the core of neuronal communication lie action potentials, brief, rapid electrical impulses that travel down the axon to transmit information for brain function. Abnormalities in neuron firing are ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have demonstrated, for the first time, that a key emotional center deep in the human ...

A single week of intensive meditation and mind-body practices led to measurable changes across the brain and body. Researchers observed improved brain efficiency, boosted immune signaling, and ...

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