Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

Boston)—Recently, there has been convergence of thought by researchers in the fields of memory, perception, and neurology that the same neural ...

The glial-specific role of betaPix during cerebral blood vessel development has been revealed by establishing a new betaPix conditional trap allele in zebrafish.

In the College of Health Sciences’ Human Anatomy Lab, students perform cadaver dissections — a unique learning opportunity ...

Their study, published on Jan. 12, showed a consistent pattern of the brain shifting backward and upward, and rotating upward ...

A new study has found that astronauts’ brains can be repositioned and reshaped during stints in outer space. Published in the ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The Grinch is one of the holiday season’s most familiar icons. The grumpy, green, fur-covered misanthrope who ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning and neurological disease. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers uncovered four ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

Representing the brain as a complex network typically involves approximations of both biological detail and network structure. Here, we discuss the sort of biological detail that may improve network ...