New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this ...

What makes this neural cluster unusual is its binary activity pattern: it is consistently active in females but largely ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

Brain stimulation might sound like some Frankensteinian demonstration from a Victorian science fair. But in reality, it is a contemporary technique making a huge impact in neuroscience by addressing a ...

New research from the University of St Andrews, the University of Copenhagen and Drexel University has developed AI ...

Whether it is a Friday-night drink with friends, a quiet glass of wine to unwind after a long day, or as a wedding toast, alcohol has woven itself into celebration, comfort, and routine. This ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

Forgoing sleep to watch one more episode of the latest show, to read one more chapter of a thrilling book, or even to pull an all-nighter, is not uncommon. But sleep deprivation can catch up to people ...