According to a team of researchers led by Yale University, infection by the Zika virus diverts a key protein necessary for neural cell division in the...
An international team of neuroscientists from the United States and Europe has mapped 180 distinct areas, including 97 that were previously unknown, in...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Australia has made a successful vaccine formulation that targets pathological proteins...
A new study led by Vanderbilt University scientist Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel has found that birds have significantly more neurons packed into their brains...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Todd Thiele from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a circuit between two brain regions that...
A novel technology being developed by a team of researchers at Binghamton University has delivered outstanding results over the ability to identify persons...
According to a new study in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, an extinct bird known as the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was in fact relatively...
A new study led by Nikolaos Karalis of the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and Dr. Cyril Herry of the Neurocentre Magendie has shed light on what...
A variety of hypotheses on how the brain folds have been proposed but none have been directly used to make testable predictions. Now, a group of scientists...
Bacteria communicate with one another through similar electrical signaling mechanisms as neurons in the human brain, a new study published in the journal...
A large international team of researchers from the Blue Brain Project has digitally reconstructed and simulated a slice of a juvenile rat’s neocortex,...
A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has revealed an intrinsic biological difference between males and females in the molecular regulation...
A team of neuroscientists at Duke University published two separate studies today, one involving rats and the other involving rhesus macaque monkeys, that...
A gene that is responsible for brain size in modern Homo sapiens and their ancient relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, has been identified by a team...
The more curious we are about a topic, the easier it is to learn information about that topic. A new study carried out by California University scientists...
In a groundbreaking study, scientists led by Dr Giulio Ruffini of Starlab Barcelona, Spain, have successfully transmitted the words ‘hola’ and ‘ciao’...
According to a new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, rats can feel regret – a cognitive behavior once thought to be uniquely human.
Rats...
