A new study reveals how interneurons, brain cells that regulate the firing of other neurons, act as traffic controllers in ...

By optically controlling the activity of pyramidal cells, we demonstrate that these excitatory neurons induce vasoconstriction when their action potential firing is increased by releasing glutamate ...

The process of deciphering information conveyed by neurons in the human brain is known as neural coding. Conventionally, it has been done by considering how neurons change their rate of firing ...

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

But in humans, the technical challenges of identifying and analyzing new neurons in adult brains, combined with their rarity, had led scientists to doubt their significance to brain function.

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

For decades, scientists believed the heart was a normal organ controlled entirely by the brain. Now, the picture just got a ...

This year is the centennial anniversary of German psychiatrist Hans Berger's invention of electroencephalography (EEG), a way ...

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

Researchers have flipped the script on the usual approach to pain relief in a new study, demonstrating that a short course of ...

the internal processes that make and remake the brain—the birth of new neurons and death of old ones, the creation and dissipation of neural connections, and more—persist across the lifespan.

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