Understanding how these signals are processed and integrated by the brain could provide much-needed insight into various psychological and physiological conditions, such as anxiety, depression and ...

Time is of the essence when it comes to building your brain’s defenses, especially since it’s generally impossible to reverse ...

Scientists have created the most detailed functional brain map to date by tracing connections between 84,000 neurons in a ...

Sucralose, an artificial sweetener that’s often found in low- and no-calorie sweeteners and diet drinks, boosted feelings of ...

Summary: Touch is a vital sense, yet the brain processes active and passive touch using distinct pathways. In mice, ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

“Looking at it really gives you an awe about the sense of complexity in the brain that is very much akin to looking up at the stars of night.” To create the breakthrough map, researchers first ...

like brain tissue or brain activity than they would be to the kidney. And obviously that makes sense, because a lot of what we experience comes through our brains, but is that really where our ...

a chemical ecologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Pennsylvania, who was not involved in this study. According to Kimball, any combination of a detector—sensory neurons, artificial sensors, ...