very image we see and every sound we hear is encoded in the brain through the activation of tiny processing units called neurons – nerve cells that are ten times smaller than a human hair. The human ...

How is it that we all see the world in a similar way? Imagine sitting with a friend in a café, both of you looking at a phone ...

Researchers at USC have created the first method to noninvasively measure microscopic blood vessel pulses in the human brain.

How is it that we all see the world in a similar way? Imagine sitting with a friend in a café, both of you looking at a phone screen displaying a dog running along the beach. Although each of our ...

To dig deeper, the researchers developed a method for measuring activation patterns in astrocytes across a whole brain of a ...

In a major leap forward for sleep science, researchers have uncovered five distinct “sleep” profiles—patterns that reveal how ...

Johns Hopkins scientists uncovered microscopic “nanotube” channels that neurons use to transfer toxic molecules. While this ...

Researchers have found a set of brainstem neurons that can dial down chronic pain. These Y1 receptor neurons balance pain ...

Keith Thomas, a man in his 40s with no sensation or movement in his hands, is able to feel and move objects by controlling ...

Why do animals search for food at specific times of the day? In a study published in Current Biology, a research group led by ...