Scientists Identify Critical New Protein Complex Involved in Learning and Memory Researchers have identified a protein complex that plays a critical, but previously unknown, role in memory and learning.
Brain Size Matters When it Comes to Animal Self Control Animals with the largest brain volume showed superior cognitive abilities, a new study reports.
Acting Out Dreams While Asleep Could Be Warning Sign of Brain Disorder RBD, a sleep disorder which causes people to act out their dreams, could predict the onset of neurodegenerative diseases.
How Vision Makes Sure Little Fish Don’t Get Carried Away Researchers discover an array of new types of neurons which help zebrafish to perceive and compensate for self motion.
Scientists Discover Brain’s Anti Distraction System Researchers reveal our brains rely on an active suppression mechanism to avoid distraction.
Jump Starting Natural Resilience Reverses Stress Susceptibility Researchers trace a vulnerability in depression like behaviors in mice to out of balance activity in neurons.
Neurons Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks A new study could provide insight into memory problems seen in neurodegenerative diseases in which gamma waves are disturbed.
Rapid Whole Brain Imaging with Single Cell Resolution Researchers demonstrate an new, easy and fast way to achieve whole brain imaging for 3D analysis of gene expression profiles and neural networks at a systems level.
Study Connects Sleep Deficits Among Young Fruitflies to Disruption in Mating Later in Life Researchers discover a link between sleep loss in young fruit flies and mating behavior later in life.
Neuroscientists Disprove Idea About Brain Eye Coordination New research challenges existing assumptions about eye-brain coordination.
Eavesdropping on Brain Cell Chatter Researchers have been able to image changes in calcium levels in astrocytes.
Synapses Stability in Transformation Researchers report synapses remain stable if their components grow and coordinate with one another.
Scientists Explain How Memories Stick Together Researchers create a new model of memory which explains how neurons retain selective memories a few hours after an event takes place.
Brain Anatomy Differences Between Deaf and Hearing Depend on First Language Learned Researchers report that the language we learn as children, as well as hearing status, affect the structure of the brain.
