A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a ...

Scientists characterized the largest sample of a neural circuit to date to improve artificial intelligence models and better ...

Neuroscientists are zeroing in on how special kinds of brain cells help us see things that aren't actually there.

Missense variants in the O-GlcNAc transferase ( OGT) gene have recently been shown to segregate with a syndromic form of intellectual disability (OGT-ID), underscoring the importance of protein ...

One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and ...

Researchers mapped activity in 621,733 neurons, revealing how vision, choice, movement, and reward signals spread across brain regions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.