New research shows a single neuron in fruit flies can trigger two distinct behaviors in response to the same smell.

The human brain is comprised of two main types of cells, known as neurons and glia. The first are responsible for ...

In AD, synaptic plasticity, the brain’s ability to regulate the strength of synaptic connections between neurons, is significantly disrupted. This worsens over time, reducing cognitive and memory ...

Scientists have discovered novel drug candidates which could ultimately lead to new effective treatments for conditions ...

The same neuron can tell fruit flies to walk toward the smell of rotting fruit and speed up, according to new research from Yale scientists. Neurobiologists once believed that each neuron held a ...

Technology Feature Published: October 2009 Getting inside their minds Michael Eisenstein Nature Methods 6, 773–781 (2009) Cite this article ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start-it becomes refined by what ...

Scientists at the University of Western Australia and the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science have ...

First devised by Zoltan Takats, a chemist and professor at Imperial College London, the technology consists of a needle-like ...

The herb rosemary has been linked with memory—now researchers turned the compound against Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive ...

Australian start-up Cortical Labs and UK’s bit.bio have built CL1 with the aim of creating ‘synthetic biological intelligence’ ...