This valuable study combines experiments and theory to investigate the putative role of spontaneous correlated activity in establishing aligned topographic maps of neural activity in higher-order ...

Researcher Ming-Fen Ho wanted to discover better drugs to treat alcohol and opioid addiction. So she started growing ...

This year’s Physics prize has been awarded to John J Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and ...

Place cells are well known to encode individual locations, but new experiments and analysis indicate that stitching together ...

A new study reveals how the brain forms cohesive mental maps of spaces and highlights the critical role of sleep in this process.

Place cells are well known to encode individual locations, but new experiments and analysis at MIT indicate that stitching ...

Animals and humans develop a certain tolerance to prolonged heat: the body adjusts to release heat instead of generating it, ...

Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have used patient-derived stem cells to create brain organoids—also called ...