human research, neuroscience

Haydeh Payami helped uncover the genetic basis of Parkinson’s disease. Now, she hopes to find new ways to treat the disease by studying the gut microbiome.

A combination of factors, from oxytocin release as an indicator of emotional investment to cortisol and other hormones that correlate with attention, can forecast what people will do after an experience.

Suppressing the natural age-related increase in neuronal excitation lengthens the lives of worms, and there are indications that the same may be true for mice and humans.

A perception of sustained focus may actually be the result of cycles of fluctuating rather than continuous neural activity, according to new behavioral and neurological data from studies in humans and macaques.

Researchers directly recorded neural activity in both sides of the brain’s cortex during the movement of only one arm in humans.

Neurons of the embryonic subplate don’t die as scientists had thought.

Neurons can continue to capture a short-term memory without continuous firing, researchers show.  

Young cells make their way to the frontal lobe to create new circuits in the brains of infants, researchers report. 

Activity in the anterior cingulate cortex corresponds with observing the behavior of others when their actions, or the subsequent outcomes, don’t match one’s expectation.

Analyzing resting brain scans, researchers can anticipate the brain activities of a person performing a range of tasks. 

Repeated exposure to explosions can damage the cerebellum in combat veterans and mouse models alike.

Neural connectome patterns differ enough between people to use them as a fingerprint.

In vivo recordings from humans reveal that brain activity related to seeing pictures correlates with eye movements during REM sleep.