Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Many mammals physically pivot their ears to hone in on a particular sound, and now it seems that a similar action takes place ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark achievement: a neural map that shows activity across the entire brain during ...

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental health disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and ...

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a ...

New research reveals that when microplastics enter the body, they may bind to proteins, disrupting how brain cells function and acting as neurotoxicants. The researchers treated mouse serum with ...

Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of decision-making at single-cell resolution in a mammal. For decades, most ...

Neuroscientists from around the world have worked in parallel to map, for the first time, the entire brain activity of mice while they were making decisions. This achievement involved using electrodes ...

It suggests that manual dexterity and brain evolution are connected across the entire primate lineage, from lemurs to humans. Notably, the correlation held even when human data were excluded, ...