Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

Deep inside the brain, every thought and memory begins with a burst of electrical activity. For years, scientists have tried ...

Researchers have developed the first activity-based maps of the prefrontal cortex, challenging traditional descriptions of ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease with no cure and limited treatment options.

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Scientists have developed a computer-based model that may explain how nerve cells become damaged in ALS, and how best to time ...

The ability to make simple reaching motions or drive a car depends on the brains ability to guide action in a region of the brain called cerebellum. When the interaction of the cells within the ...