As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns. For over 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same ...

How do brain regions communicate? Researchers introduce a new optogenetic method to target long-distance circuits in ...

Stressful situations experienced during adolescence tend to cause deeper and more lasting changes to the brain than those ...

Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco, the University of Cambridge and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have ...

New neuroscience research identifies Glutamine Synthetase as the key enzyme driving postnatal brain maturation and neuronal ...

Researchers have identified a specific class of brain neurons that dies during multiple sclerosis because inflammation ...

Pyramidal neurons are a very common type of neuron in the brain. Their cell bodies have a unique pyramidal shape that is the source of their name. They make up about two-thirds of all neurons in the ...

Researchers discover that the nerve cells that make us uniquely human are also uniquely vulnerable to dying during the waves ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...