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The neuroscience is pretty uncomfortable. People in positions of power show reduced activity in mirror neuron systems, the ...

Growing neurons rely on chemical cues to find their targets, but new research shows that the brain’s physical properties help ...

An EEG (electroencephalogram) is a painless test that uses small sensors placed on the scalp to measure the brain's electrical activity. It provides a real-time readout of brain "waves"—rhythms ...

Researchers have developed photonic computing chips that overcome key limitations for a type of neural network known as a ...

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

More than 7 million Americans over the age of 65 live with Alzheimer's. For years, scientists researching the disease have ...

The brain's 'garbage disposal' system falters with age, a new study finds, with long-lived neurons offloading clumpy, old ...

From summer evenings to global disease prevention, mosquito repellents are a daily defense for billions of people, yet until ...

The results include a comparison between two different basis functions for temporal selectivity and how these generate different predictions for the dynamics of neural populations. The conclusions are ...