Scientists have known for years that neural activity in the brain's motor cortex doesn't just happen when people perform ...

The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurological treatment that involves inserting an electrode into the brain and using electric pulses to stimulate therapeutic effects. So far, researchers have used ...

BrainGate study finds motor cortex observational activity scales with how human-like an action looks, revealing distributed ...

Challenging the common sense that 'calculation is the job of electrons'Current computers have separate parts for calculating (processor) and storing (memory). Because data must be moved back and forth ...

When I began my master’s program in cognitive science, an electrical engineering professor told us—rather arrogantly—that the soul is nothing but neurons firing. “You’re deluded if you think otherwise ...

Researchers identify the amygdalostriatal transition zone (ASt) as the missing circuit that sustains long-lasting fear and anxiety behaviors.

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain, is now known to be ...

I have written that I am "putting a fly brain into a robot," but I haven't yet written about which specific parts of the brain are assigned to what. This time, I will talk about those details. What I ...

During slow-wave sleep, the cortex alternates between UP states of vigorous firing and DOWN states of near-silence; the Sst-Chodl neurons broke this pattern. “Their activity is even higher at the ...