How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine honored Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work developing optogenetics – a technique that allows researchers to control the ...

Researchers have conducted a neuroimaging study to investigate how the brain is organized and how that integrated system gives rise to intelligence. Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set ...

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The researchers integrated measures of both brain structure and function to enable a more precise characterization of the human brain. Rather than identifying intelligence with a particular cognitive ...

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An algal protein helped scientists reactivate a fear memory in mice, turning light into a tool for testing what specific ...

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