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

As the adage goes 'neurons that fire together, wire together,' but a new article demonstrates that, in addition to response similarity, projection target also constrains local connectivity.

When the neurons fire at a high rate, their higher membrane voltage makes it easier for perturbing inputs, which slightly increase the membrane voltage, to cross this threshold and cause a new ...

One theory explains that thoughts are generated when neurons fire. Our external environment (such as home, relationships, media, etc.) leads to a pattern of neuron firing, ...

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

N euroscientists 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 ...

The brain is constantly mapping the external world like a GPS, even when we don't know about it. This activity comes in the form of tiny electrical signals sent between neurons—specialized cells ...

Another set of neurons were active when the monkeys were in the process of deciding whether to complete mutual eye contact initiated by the other. And interestingly, when fixing a gaze onto another ...

New research makes a molecular connection between the brain and aging—and shows that overactive neurons can shorten life span.

The duo found 53 neurons that fire at different strengths depending on how strong the magnetic fields around them are. They’re most sensitive to a range of intensity that’s naturally produced ...