The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a tale of neurons, with every thought and memory traced to their electrical chatter. That narrative is now being rewritten as evidence ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

Scientists have mapped the sensory neurons in bone for the first time, and identified their dual role in reporting and ...

Findings could create new opportunities to treat and study neurodegenerative diseasesScientists discovered that sugar ...

OpenAI, Google, and Moonshot AI are ushering in agentic AI systems that investigate, coordinate, and verify tasks beyond ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Months before the diagnosis, he noticed weakness in his shoulder and arms, which then sparked alarm bells when he was unable to lift one of his two sons out of a swimming pool.

Once we are able to pay attention to something, it then gets stored by a structure that’s deep in our temporal lobe called ...

Ahab hunting down Moby Dick. Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner. Learning Latin. Walking over hot coals. Standing in a ...

The first node sits in the peripheral nervous system. Sensory neurons in the vagus nerve detect damage in the heart and send signals upward. The researchers focused on a subset of vagal sensory ...