Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center provide critical insight into how the brain and body work together to ...

A zebra finch can fit in the palm of your hand, but its brain is doing something that looks almost unruly. Inside one part of ...

Engineers have found a way to fine-tune tiny artificial neurons to fire like real brain cells.

Pediatricians and parents — and, really, anyone who works with children — have long known that a child’s social needs evolve with age. Yale researchers have now discovered the neurological signaling ...

For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

This valuable work identifies a subpopulation of neurons in the larval zebrafish pallium that responds differentially to varying threat levels, potentially mediating the categorization of negative ...

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The ventral nerve cord is the area of the fruit fly’s nervous system that controls most of its movement, also called its motor functions. There are a variety of different broad classes of neurons that ...