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By crafting an artificial brain-like environment with microscopic nanopillars, researchers have successfully guided neurons ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. The findings ...

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A breakthrough study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical information from their extremities to their nucleus, leading to the activation of ...

Despite having over 85 billion neurons, the brain’s overall thought process seems to remain constrained by its architecture. The findings, published in the journal Neuron, revealed that the ...