Nervous system functions, from motion to perception to cognition, depend on the active zones of neural circuit connections ...

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one ...

Nervous system functions, from motion to perception to cognition, depend on the active zones of neural circuit connections, ...

When we form a memory, brain cells need to deliver supplies to strengthen specific neural connections. A new study from MPFI ...

Dominika Pilat, PhD, and Ana Griciuc, PhD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Neuron, "The Gain-of-Function ...

I have come across various ways of defining Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Many of them miss a fundamental characteristic ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered how animals sense that things smell pleasant ...

Your brain transforms thoughts into speech using an ancient blueprint: the sensorimotor control system. New research reveals ...

Scientists have identified a single gene that gives rise to a rare form of diabetes, unique to newborn babies.

Artificial neurons will boost computers by mimicking how the brain processes information, while consuming a fraction of the ...

Johns Hopkins scientists uncovered microscopic “nanotube” channels that neurons use to transfer toxic molecules. While this ...

A new study reveals how young synapses gradually mature to send chemical signals correctly — a process that can take days and depends on neural activity.