For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...
Dopamine plays a more complex and precise role in brain function than previously thought: it not only enhances neural ...
Japanese scientists have created miniature human brain circuits by joining lab-grown thalamus and cortex models from stem ...
Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations — it’s a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...
Fixing the balance of a single brain circuit erased anxiety and social deficits in mice, revealing a powerful new target for ...
Axons in the thalamus (pink) extended toward the cortex, while those in the cortex (green) extended toward the thalamus at 14 days post-fusion. A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the ...