How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This reliability allows the brain to recognize the same object each time it is seen. Our ...

For over 100 years, scientists have agreed that discrete collections of brain cells fire off signals to other brain areas through a series of interconnected fibers. In a new study, researchers applied ...

Scientists have revealed the molecular structure of a type of receptor that's crucial to brain development and function. 'This study shows the dominant assemblies and states of the GABA receptor. That ...

New research shows fat in arms, legs, torso, and around organs affects brain health differently, with visceral fat tied to ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in ...

A new study in mice reports that concussions sustained early in life can cause subtle brain changes that re-emerge later in ...

Summary: A new five-year study explores how dopamine may drive changes in brain myelin during social isolation. Researchers ...

A new study reports that prenatal exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos is associated with lasting changes in the structure and metabolism of the brain in children and adolescents. The research ...

Prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos is associated with altered brain structure, function, and metabolism, with a duration into late childhood and adolescence.