The drive to eat may be controlled by a very simple circuit in the brain, new research in mice suggests. Just three types of ...

That's promising, given the growing need for weight loss and obesity treatments in humans. According to the World Health Organization, 43% of people aged 18 and up were overweight as of 2022; 16% ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

Mirror neurons received significant media attention in the 2000s and were painted by some scientists as the key to many of our advanced social abilities. However, many of the more significant ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...

I side with Descartes on dualism. The subtitle of my memoir Concussion Is Brain Injury, is “Treating the Neurons and Me.” That, to me, expresses the heart of treating brain injury: Treat the ...

As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns. For over 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same ...

(A, B) Neurons are specialized eukaryotic cells that ... which are formed by the Arp2/3 complex (blue). The diameters of microtubules, intermediate filaments, and actin filaments are within ...

Research reveals why misplaced neurons in the brain are overactive and lead to developmental disorders. Research reveals why misplaced neurons in the brain are overactive and lead to developmental ...