Scientists have discovered how stress can lead to serious mental health problems. To better understand the function of type I ...

Researchers have engineered a next-generation glutamate sensor, iGluSnFR4, capable of detecting the faintest incoming ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Neurons are famously fragile, yet some injured cells manage to hang on, stabilize, and even reconnect. That quiet resilience ...

Neuroscientists have long dreamed of watching thoughts unfold as they happen, without disturbing the fragile tissue that ...

Another meta-analysis found that drinking a glass of orange juice every day for a matter of weeks was enough to lower ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it ...

Artificial Intelligence is a relatively recent tool developed by computer experts. What is it? Here are some definitions to ...