Emerging fluctuation-based functionalities are expected to open a way to novel memory device technology. An international joint research team led by NIMS succeeded in fabricating…
How to tell if a brain is awake: EEG may not always be a reliable reflection of consciousness Remarkably, scientists are still debating just how…
Mouse study connects body clock and memory recall. Can’t remember something? Try waiting until later in the day. Researchers identified a gene in mice that…
Less than 10% of neurons in the mouse visual system behave the way scientists thought most such cells work to perceive the outside world. A…
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Zoe McElligott, PhD, found that alcohol consumption is regulated by the activity of a particular set of neurons…
Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome…
Scarring in their brain’s white matter does more harm than previously thought. It’s quite possible that you are one of those people with white spots…
University of Maryland researchers showed sight deprivation changes how groups of neurons work together and alters their sensitivity to different frequencies. Scientists have known that…
Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves. Having trouble paying attention? MIT neuroscientists may have a solution for…
Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, had significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared to women not…
More research into suicide needed ‘urgently,’ say international team. An international team of researchers has identified key networks within the brain that they say interact…
Lighting the Way: A new method to detect light in the brain sets the stage for next-gen optical brain devices. Researchers from the Italian Institute…
A new miniature NMR implant measures neuronal activity. A team of neuroscientists and electrical engineers from Germany and Switzerland developed a highly sensitive implant that…
Why do we freeze when startled? New study in flies points to serotonin. Columbia researchers uncover mechanism that produces the fly’s startle response, offers clues…
How mantis shrimp make sense of the world: Researchers traced neural connections in a newly discovered brain region of mantis shrimp, gaining new insights into…
Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Switzerland,…
Ayahuasca Compound Changes Brainwaves to Vivid ‘Waking-Dream’ State Scientists have peered inside the brain to show how taking DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering…
The brain cortex, the outside layer of our brain often referred to as grey matter, is one of the most complex structures found in living…