New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

Scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Columbia scientists have identified specialized brainstem neurons that tell mice when to stop eating. These cells integrate ...

Reflex actions are involuntary and do not necessarily involve the brain. Reflex actions protect ... link in the spinal cord called an inter neuron (between the sensory neuron and a motor neuron ...

is its simplest nonlinear element. What is the basic unit of computation in the brain? For over five decades since McCulloch and Pitts, neural models have focused on the single neuron, but it is ...

Our findings reveal that this fractal coordination of neuron activity occurs across ... teamwork might not just be a solution for the brain. When elements are organised into tiered networks ...

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

Northwestern researchers have made notable scientific advancements in the past week. The Daily compiled a recap of their ...

A breakthrough study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical ... where the genes that modify neuron function are controlled is a long ...

A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical ... The nucleus where the genes that modify neuron function are controlled is a long distance ...