Simulations show that short, distance-dependent excitatory connections amplify shared inputs, drive burst propagation, and ...

The work won three scientists the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. If brain pathways were highways, optogenetics ...

During fetal development, the human brain generates an excess of neurons, most of which are eliminated shortly before and ...

During fetal development, the human brain generates an excess of neurons, most of which are eliminated shortly before and after birth.

The data showed 26 percent of neurons in the prenatal cortex had copy number variants, but this decreased to about 6 percent after birth.

Some parts of the body can recover from injury fairly rapidly. The cornea, for example, can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The human brain, however, is not one of these fast-healing ...

Engineers have printed tiny, artificial neurons that can "talk" to mouse brain cells, and the development could pave the way to innovations in computing and medicine. The work, published April 15 in ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, shining light on previously unseen neural connections and lesser-known ...

Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in processing basic features of what the eyes see, not every neuron ends up answering the call to process properties of ...