A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion ...

Once in the hippocampus, memories and learning can be transmitted to different parts of the brain and retrieved whenever ...

Mild brain stimulation helped adults with weaker brain connections improve math speed by 6 percent. Memory tasks didn’t ...

Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in ...

A key feature that appears to facilitate neuroplasticity is the distinct nature of neurons compared to other cells.

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the brain, but so far experts have agreed that our thoughts, feelings and behavior ...

In the brain, tRNS may enhance learning by gently boosting the activity of underperforming neurons, helping them get closer ...

The brain is constantly mapping the external world like a GPS, even when we don't know about it. This activity comes in the form of tiny electrical signals sent between neurons—specialized cells that ...

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an ...