New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

A new study reveals that memory-related brain activity continues to shift even after learning, challenging traditional views ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the establishment of very precise connections between neurons: synapses. A recent ...

And it sits about 2 feet below your brain ... diversity of their gut microbiome and lowered their overall levels of inflammation. High-fiber diets have also been shown to support a healthy gut ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...

“Brain Monitoring” from “Bench to Bedside”: We have a long term interest in studying the basic mechanisms of brain injury, developing mathematical models of neurons and neural networks, and signal ...

In mice, maps of brain-wide inputs to individual neurons that do or do ... could help to explain this functional diversity. The activity of an individual neuron is constrained by the anatomical ...

The brain only invests the energy to activate neural processes when an experience is sufficiently valuable given that neural activity has a strong tendency to return to baseline. The brain has around ...

Astrocytes, star-shaped cells, play an essential role in supporting neurons and maintaining brain health. While their function in gray matter is well-documented, their diversity in white matter ...

In contrast to T1 neuroblasts, T2 neuroblasts generate intermediate neural progenitors (INPs) that expand the number and diversity of cell types. The diversity of T2-derived neurons contributes a ...