Researchers led by a group at the Institute of Brain Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and the Nagoya City University School of Medicine report that they have shed ...

New research published today in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association could explain why neurons fail to communicate effectively in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Researchers have developed a new method for training artificial intelligence that dramatically improves its speed and energy ...

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

Could computers ever learn more like humans do, without relying on artificial intelligence (AI) systems that must undergo ...

How do the circuits of the human brain work—and what happens when they are disrupted? To investigate these questions, ...

Millisecond ‘kiss and run’ exchange – captured in a China lab on the world’s first camera equipped to do it – solves a 50-year-old debate.

Researchers have discovered how an ion channel in the brain's neurons has a kind of 'molecular memory', which contributes to the formation and preservation of lifelong memories. The researchers have ...

The brain is an almost inconceivably complex system of billions of neurons interlinked via trillions of connections that work to coordinate everything you do, think, and feel (Zimmer, 2011). This ...