The cerebral cortex is densely packed with different nerve cells that enable us to perceive, think and act. Yet how these ...

What enables us to sustain effort toward goals, even when the task becomes increasingly difficult? A recent study by ...

This work establishes a valuable theoretical finding about how the spike timing dependence of inhibitory plasticity shapes recurrent network connectivity. The combination of theoretical analysis and ...

Research reveals the role of orexin neurons in maintaining motivation, with implications for the treatment of ADHD, depression and addiction.

A new study demonstrates that neural stem cells in the developing cerebral cortex branch into parallel lineages early in ...

A new study suggests that the human brain’s extraordinary abilities may depend not only on its vast number of neurons, but also on the unusual computational power of each individual cell. Credit: ...

OpenAI says Astra produced 10 new mathematical results, but replication claims and undisclosed failures complicate its ...

Furthermore, during motivated behavior, orexin neuron activity changed dynamically: Activity increased during reward ...

Sweeping waves of electrical activity may help the brain transform fragmented visual signals into a stable picture of the world. Scientists propose that these traveling waves coordinate perception, ...

Cerepeut, Inc., a biotechnology company developing mitochondrial therapeutics for neurodegenerative disease, today announced publication of a landmark study in Neuron revealing why the brain turns on ...

A group of brain cells called orexin neurons appears to help us keep working when reaching a reward becomes increasingly ...

Brain stem cells cortical development works differently than scientists believed for 60 years: two parallel, fate-committed ...