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It's a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is ...

If you are crossing an unfamiliar room in the dark, you may grope around a bit to get a sense of your space. But for many ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Former NFL running back Chris Johnson was recently revealed to have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ...

A virus that normally infects mice has produced Parkinson’s-like brain damage in rodents without any other intervention. In a ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Novartis already received FDA approval of ITVISMA as a gene therapy for the treatment of patients with SMA. Read why NVS ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...