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 ...

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 ...

The cranial imaging cannula (CIC) is a revolutionary surgical procedure that allows for real-time imaging of deep brain ...

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

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