C ornell researchers have built a neural implant so small it can balance on a grain of salt, yet powerful enough to ...

Some people with psychiatric conditions, including addiction and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, struggle to control their urges or make decisions under uncertainty. In a collaboration ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

Dopamine is often called the brain's "motivation molecule," but for me, it represents something deeper, a window into how ...

Why is sleep so important for learning and memory? Neuroscientists from the Csicsvari group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) provided new insight into this essential function ...

MIT researchers discovered that circling waves in the brain's prefrontal cortex help regain focus following distraction. These waves, similar to herders, guide the cortex back on track, observed in ...

Researchers have discovered a specific set of neurons in the amygdala that can trigger anxiety and social deficits when ...

For numerous individuals with schizophrenia, living with the condition involves challenges, not only related to hallucinations or delusions, but also due to subtler difficulties, such as problems ...

Scripps Research neuroscientist Giordano Lippi is the recipient of a $4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to study haploinsufficiency, a condition where only ...