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, ...

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 ...

A new study uncovers how progesterone-responsive neurons in the anterior ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) toggle between ...

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

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

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

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

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

Fret not, my sleep-deprived friend, because new neuroscience suggests that NREM sleep—meaning, straightforwardly, “non-rapid ...

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.

A team of neurologists, bioengineers and radiologists has found that two neurons in the human brain that code for dopamine production have to work harder than similar cells in primate relatives.