Line-scanning high-speed atomic force microscopy measures the ‘firing’ of the bacteriorhodopsin protein at millisecond temporal resolution when the light is turned on. The bar at…
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Ever noticed that looking at photos of good times with family or friends diminishes the pain of your headache? Nostalgia has already been shown to…
A team at Scripps Research reveals details into how Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia spread in the brain. In neurons, the LC3 protein (green)…
A new non-invasive technique provides a near-real-time view of the human brain’s waste-clearance vessels. A joint research team at the Medical University of South Carolina…
People who are more physically fit are less likely to develop Alzheimer’sAlzheimer's disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental…
Research reveals links between the irritability, explosive rage, and unstable moods that have grown more common in recent years, and a lack of micronutrients that…
Graphic illustration of magnetomechanical stimulation. Credit: Yichao Yu and Mark Lythgoe at UCL Scientists at UCL have developed a new technique that uses microscopic magnetic…
A virtual reality arena was coupled with in vivo fluorescence brain activity imaging to observe the neural dynamics of brain structures implicated in learning and…
A student training on a neurosurgical simulator. Credit: The Neuro Machine learning algorithms enhanced technical performance and learning outcomes during simulated brain tumor removal. The…
Microscopy image of a brain organoid showing neuron precursors (magenta) and deep-layer projection neurons (green), which are one of the cell types affected by autism…
Circadian rhythms control the removal of a key protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ability of immune system to destroy Alzheimer’sAlzheimer's disease…
When performing calculations, some neurons are active when adding, others when subtracting. The brain has neurons that fire specifically during certain mathematical operations. This is…
A new study published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits is the first to analyze the structural connectivity changes that happen in the brain after long-duration…
Behavioral interventions targeting social anxiety must be adapted to treat loneliness. Despite similar symptoms, loneliness and social anxiety are driven by different brain states, according…
Researchers from MIT have created a comprehensive atlas of the types of cells found in the brain cerebrovasculature. Credit: iStockphoto, edited by MIT News Single-cell…
When a person tries to access a memory, their brain quickly sifts through everything stored in it to find the relevant information. But as we…
MIT neuroscientists developed a computer model that can localize sounds. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT MITMIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It…
The dentate gyrus appears as a thick, mostly yellow, C-shaped body at center-left of this cross-section of a rat hippocampus. Credit: USC Dornsife/Yuni Kay Researchers…
Image Caption: The image of a clock with brightfield macrophage images around it shows how circadian changes of cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans, shown in…
Salk scientists developed a technique of using sound waves to control brain cells, dubbed sonogenetics, to selectively and noninvasively turn on groups of neurons. It…