When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...

Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly ...

It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision ...

Young minds are easily molded. Each new experience rewires a child's brain circuitry, adding and removing synaptic ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

Some artificial intelligence models can already resemble the human brain even before having learned anything. This surprising finding comes from a study that challenges traditional approaches ...

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.