New research from the University of Chicago challenges long-held beliefs about how synaptic plasticity contributes to memory and learning. As animals encounter new experiences, the connections between ...

Langston Charter Middle School Principal David Wooten explains the scientific reasons for and successful outcomes of teaching boys and girls in separate classrooms.

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

The high comorbidity of type 2 diabetes (T2D) with psychiatric or neurodegenerative disorders points to a need for understanding what links these diseases.

Type 2 diabetes may quietly alter the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer’s, weakening reward perception and memory ...

Scientists have been developing and refining methods to accurately measure the age and health of our brains, without cutting ...

This study investigated the neural mechanisms involved in feelings of interpersonal guilt and responsibility evoked by social decisions. In two studies (one during fMRI) ...

Rat study suggests that Type 2 diabetes may weaken a projection in the brain that drives reward and spatial processing.

After a stroke, gamma oscillations disappear, and parvalbumin neurons lose their connections. Gamma oscillations are like the ...

At the show, Synchron demonstrated how its Stentrode BCI, a stent-like device implanted via the neck into blood vessels near ...

New research uncovers how the brain processes learning by identifying the exact moment an animal learns a new skill.