This valuable work identifies a subpopulation of neurons in the larval zebrafish pallium that responds differentially to varying threat levels, potentially mediating the categorization of negative ...

Hibernation can vary by species. Martin says some hibernators, such as ground squirrels, rewarm—or wake up from hibernation ...

Chronic pain affects roughly 51 million adults in the United States alone, and for most of them, the available drug options ...

A human infant is born with roughly twice as many synapses as it will eventually need. Over the first few years of life, the ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, shining light on previously unseen neural connections and lesser-known ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, ...

One in five people worldwide suffers from chronic inflammatory pain. Meanwhile, about two thirds of those affected find ...

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized ...

Mayo Clinic's Translational Neuromuscular Disease Research Lab led by Nathan P. Staff, M.D., Ph.D., studies the biological ...