Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...

Feb. 4, 2025 – Microplastics have been found in the brain, showing they can cross the blood-brain barrier, and the amounts of the tiny plastic bits inside our bodies appear to be increasing at a ...

Proper brain function relies on exquisite balance between excitation and inhibition, where inhibitory circuits play fundamental roles toward sculpting principle neuron output and information ...

In September 2024, these miniature pollutants were also discovered in the human olfactory bulb, a type of brain tissue that sits above the nose in the forebrain. At the time, researchers weren’t ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

4 China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China 5 National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids, Beijing, China 6 Chinese Institute for Brain Research, ...

To enhance our understanding of the normal sequence of brain development in the immature ferret, we aimed to characterize postnatal neurodevelopment with conventional and diffusion MRI.

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For Australian sheep farmer Charles Massy, the sight of echidnas tilling the soil on his lush pastures is a wonder to behold. But they're just one part of what sustains the resilient grassland.

Their findings point to never-before-seen fast-updating signals in a feedback loop between the brain's olfactory cortex and olfactory bulb. These signals may help put odors and sounds into new ...

Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, patented in 1880, made electric lighting practical, affordable, and long-lasting. It completely transformed homes, cities, and industries worldwide, going on ...