How mantis shrimp make sense of the world: Researchers traced neural connections in a newly…
Browsing: Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the multidisciplinary study of the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system—exploring how billions of neurons interact to produce thoughts, emotions, memories, and behaviors. It bridges biology, psychology, physics, and computer science to uncover the mechanisms behind cognition, perception, and consciousness. From mapping brain circuits to understanding neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, neuroscience seeks to explain how neural activity gives rise to mind and behavior. Advances in neuroimaging, genetics, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing this field, leading to breakthroughs in mental health, brain–computer interfaces, and the treatment of neurological disorders.
Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University…
Ayahuasca Compound Changes Brainwaves to Vivid ‘Waking-Dream’ State Scientists have peered inside the brain to…
The brain cortex, the outside layer of our brain often referred to as grey matter,…
Researchers studying six adults who had one of their brain hemispheres removed during childhood to…
When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as…
Findings link healthy sleep to brain-wave bursts that mathematically mimic earthquakes. New research in rats…
Researchers from Russian corporation Neurobotics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have found…
The human visual brain devotes most of its neuronal resources to process the part of…
Is this brain cell your ‘mind’s eye’? No one knows what connects awareness — the…
A study on mice shows animal research may need to take into account the connection…
Researchers have discovered how neuronal networks are able to generate activity sequences for meaningful behavior.…
Why is it that people find songs such as James Taylor’s “Country Roads,” UB40’s “Red,…
Don’t let their cuteness fool you – these animals are not to be messed with.…
New research at Carnegie Mellon University indicates that there is no gender disparity in how…
The Columbia-led study offers new insight into the organization of the brain’s listening center; provides…
Researchers use 3-dimensional electron microscopy to map the local connectome in the cerebral cortex. Mammalian…
Systematic tracing of how neurons connect reveals mammalian brain’s ‘org chart’ of possible information flow.…