New research highlights how astrocytes, long considered mere support cells, actively shape brain network dynamics.

For example, scientists have often thought that neurons follow what are called Hebbian rules, where neurons that consistently fire together, wire together.

Neuroscientists usually investigate one brain at a time. They observe how neurons fire as a person reads certain words, for example, or plays a video game. As social animals, however, those same ...

What little scientists know about how human neurons function in vivo comes from resections of brain tissue in people with cancer or intractable epilepsy. Scientists slice these biopsies, keep the ...

Humans think — AI, not so much. Science explains why our brains aren’t just fancy computers New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence ...

It seems like such a simple task, but there are so many complexities in the brain with how neurons fire and interact, and how that guides and impacts behaviors. It’s just really interesting. Why don’t ...

To better model how neurons fire and interact with glia, some scientists place the cells into a brain or grow them in an organoid. Others have produced little spheres of human neural tissue by ...

The Australian-developed machine, a biocomputer marketed for research purposes, uses living neural tissue integrated with ...