Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating ...

A newly developed technique uses a Bessel beam to extend the focus of optical coherence microscopy, allowing for a detailed ...

Researchers have discovered that the dorsal premotor cortex serves a 'meta-learning' function, overseeing and regulating physical movements. Once believed to be limited to movement planning, this ...

Once believed to be limited to movement planning, this region has now been shown, through computational modeling and brain stimulation ... of human motor adaptation via the dorsal premotor ...

Therefore, there must be zero of them.’” In recent years, research started to uncover how the human brain represents numbers, but no one examined how it handles zero. Now two independent studies, led ...

How does the brain store—and access—our memories? While our understanding of the brain has (thankfully) developed greatly ...

This July, the National Human Genome Research Institute ... Some people who advance a binary view of sex have embraced a concept called anisogamy, which defines sex according to gametes ...

Researchers have identified two neural circuits in the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) that are critical for spatial navigation ...

Everything is connected. Our efforts to move and improve generate multiple cascading responses within our bodies that can ...

It’s common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...