neuroscience

Scientists identify hippocampal neurons involved in encoding fear in mice.

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Some areas of the brain that typically process language are active in jazz musicians who are improvising, a study shows.

Researchers use comparative neuroimaging to study the dog’s auditory cortex.

Neuronal regeneration in the human adult brain is more widespread than previously thought. 

The brain activity of one monkey dictated movements of a second, sedated animal, a study shows.

In blind mice, a light-stimulated small molecule temporarily confers photosensitivity to retinal ganglion cells despite rod and cone damage.

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Researchers find that DDT may increase the risk of the neurodegenerative disease.

Mouse and rat models of the developmental disorder responded positively to a drug given to their mothers a day before birth.

Hearing improves in mice deprived of visual stimulus for a week, according to a study.

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Without microglia to pluck off unwanted synapses in early life, mouse brains develop with weaker connections, leading to altered social behavior.

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Neuroscientists are automating neural imaging and recording, allowing them to monitor increasingly large swaths of the brain in living, behaving animals.
 

Fruit flies are fixed to a silica fiber in this new technique to aid neuroscientists in performing laser surgery prior to neuroimaging.

New technology probes the functional unit of nervous transmission.

Two studies provide insight into the genetics of the disorder and show again how complex it is.

A pair of one-act chamber operas takes the audience inside the world of imagined sound. 

The publisher of The Journal of Neuroscience has laid out plans for an open-access, online-only journal for brain research.