This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

As you experience or encounter new things, your brain must encode this information via the right neural networks at the right ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

Researchers have long sought to understand the biological mechanisms that underlie learning. We know that the brain forms ...

Every day, people are constantly learning and forming new memories ... pulses are communicated with other neurons through connections between them called synapses. Individual neurons have ...

Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

A study on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) reveals that immune cells, specifically macrophages, play a critical role in ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Today’s piece is by William Wright, University of California, San Diego and Takaki ...

Neurobiologists discovered that individual neurons can apply different plasticity rules in separate dendritic branches. This new understanding challenges prior assumptions of uniformity in synaptic ...

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...