PITd, a newly discovered area for attentional control, is well connected to two previously known attention areas in the brain. Credit: Laboratory of Neural Systems…
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As our brains take in information about the world and use it to steer our actions, two key principles guide our choices: seek pleasure and…
Emerging fluctuation-based functionalities are expected to open a way to novel memory device technology. An international joint research team led by NIMS succeeded in fabricating…
How to tell if a brain is awake: EEG may not always be a reliable reflection of consciousness Remarkably, scientists are still debating just how…
Mouse study connects body clock and memory recall. Can’t remember something? Try waiting until later in the day. Researchers identified a gene in mice that…
Allen Institute scientist Jerome LeCoq looks over a 2-photon microscope used to record the activity of cells in the mouse brain. Credit: Allen Institute Less…
This image shows Channelrhodopsin-eYFP neurons (green) expressed in the central amygdala (CeA) neurotensin (NTS) containing neurons. The magenta is antibody staining for the neuropeptide NTS.…
Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome…
The effects of the white spots increase in volume as they spread across the surface of the brain. Here marked in blue. Credit: NTNU Scarring…
University of Maryland researchers showed sight deprivation changes how groups of neurons work together and alters their sensitivity to different frequencies. Scientists have known that…
More research into suicide needed ‘urgently,’ say international team. An international team of researchers has identified key networks within the brain that they say interact…
Lighting the Way: A new method to detect light in the brain sets the stage for next-gen optical brain devices. Researchers from the Italian Institute…
Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Switzerland,…
Ayahuasca Compound Changes Brainwaves to Vivid ‘Waking-Dream’ State Scientists have peered inside the brain to show how taking DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering…
The brain cortex, the outside layer of our brain often referred to as grey matter, is one of the most complex structures found in living…
Findings link healthy sleep to brain-wave bursts that mathematically mimic earthquakes. Credit: Ivanov et al. Findings link healthy sleep to brain-wave bursts that mathematically mimic…
Figure 1. Each pair presents a frame from a video watched by a test subject and the corresponding image generated by the neural network based…
A study on mice shows animal research may need to take into account the connection between genes, behavior and personality. We might refer to someone’s…
Dense connectome from the mouse cerebral cortex, the largest connectome to date. Neurons in the cortex, densely reconstructed from 3-D electron microscopy data. Credit: Reprinted…
The image shows a single section from a mouse brain. Neurons in one layer of sensory cortex (the very dense yellow color on the right)…