Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Identifying the neural mechanisms that support the regulation of vital physiological processes, such as drinking, eating and ...

Nervous system functions, from motion to perception to cognition, depend on the active zones of neural circuit connections ...

In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the scientists say they’ve demonstrated that close friendships create ...

A new study reveals how young synapses gradually mature to send chemical signals correctly — a process that can take days and depends on neural activity.

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience has found that aggression can spread socially among mice, but only when ...

very image we see and every sound we hear is encoded in the brain through the activation of tiny processing units called neurons – nerve cells that are ten times smaller than a human hair. The human ...

Why do animals search for food at specific times of the day? In a study published in Current Biology, a research group led by ...

Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a ...

Sleep-like slow-wave patterns persist for years in surgically disconnected neural tissue of awake epilepsy patients, ...