You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses. Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, ...

Certain nerve cells in the brain become active whenever they are confronted with different images or the name of a specific person or the identity of an object. They are highly selective and do not ...

The human brain is anything but static, shifting neural activity depending on time of day. In A Nutshell Scientists mapped active neurons in mouse brains at four different times of day and found the ...

Until the late 20th century, the prevailing view in neuroscience was that, past childhood, humans stop making neurons, brain-wide. What we have in adolescence, is what we get, and all we can do is ...

Are artificial neurons underestimating the power of their biological models? Ten years after initial theoretical predictions, researchers have demonstrated that an isolated biological neuron can ...

After decades of practicing medicine, my wife, Chris became convinced that the human body has a “mind” separate and distinct from the brain, and that listening to what the “body’s mind” is constantly ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

Our brain is an energy-efficient marvel, with 86 billion neurons and trillions of connections running on just 20 watts—the energy of a single lightbulb. Swiss innovators at Final Spark are ...

Mouse neurons treated with the new CaST labeling technique developed at UC Davis. CaST enables rapid labeling of brain cells as they respond to psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin or LSD. (Image by ...

Dopamine neurons in a part of the brain called the midbrain may, with aging, be increasingly susceptible to a vicious spiral ...