You lean back from the dinner table, feeling like you physically couldn’t fit another bite in – but then someone offers pie ...

Advancements could enhance perceptual capabilities in robotics. Artificially engineered biological processes, such as ...

Bar. Date. Martini. Olive. Bank. Deep in your brain, neurons known as concept cells are firing. You might have concept cells that fire for martinis but not for olives. Or ones that fire for bars — ...

Specific protein receptors in the brain play a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, making them targets for many disorders. Researchers have now constructed a detailed structural ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

Habits to Prevent Dementia and Boost Brain Health Every day, I make conscious choices to protect my brain and prevent dementia. First, I prioritize a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and ...

The advance from a team with Professor Tobin Marks and research assistant professor Yao Yao could enable perceptual capabilities in robotics.

Researchers from Northwestern and Georgia Tech developed an organic electrochemical neuron that fires at human-like frequencies, enabling real-time tactile signal processing. Their system integrates ...

"The synthetic neuron in this study achieves unprecedented performance in firing frequency ... With the human brain's immense network of 86 billion neurons poised to fire, sensing systems remain ...

The locus coeruleus is emerging as a major new area of research interest, with many important functions such as regulating ...

Certain proteins found in the human brain have long been known to be critical to controlling how brain cells communicate with each other. So-called GABAA receptors are proteins that control the flow ...