It’s been hard for the neuroscience community to take a step back from this old school interpretation that the brain is this ...

New research shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t simply broadcast generic commands to sensory regions—it sends finely tailored signals that shape how the brain processes vision depending on ...

Discover how brain organoids are helping us uncover whether early thought patterns emerge from experience or are hardwired ...

The human brain isn’t a blank slate waiting to be written by experience, according to research that challenges the ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought ...

By: Sage Rohrbach and Michelle Yang A map of over 1,000 neurons, reconstructed from an analysis of one cubic millimeter of ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human ...

For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way the brain switches pain on, revealing that neurons can release an enzyme outside ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...