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The phenomenon is one of the few examples of eavesdropping across the vertebrate/invertebrate barrier.

Vesicles load more of the neurotransmitter in response to neuronal activity, researchers find.

The human brain is more responsive to rewards received in the morning or evening than in the afternoon, researchers find.

Healthy siblings of people with the condition harbor more cohesive connections within certain brain networks.

Li-Huei Tsai began her career in cancer biology, then took a fearless leap into neuroscience, making singular breakthroughs along the way.

The Dartmouth College professor uses optogenetics to probe the neurological routes of habitual behavior.

A decades-old neurological procedure developed under unique and difficult conditions in postwar Japan remains critical to the treatment of epilepsy.

Advances in single-cell technologies have revealed vast differences between cells once thought to be in the same category, calling into question how we define cell type in the first place.

To treat neurological disease, researchers develop techniques to bypass or trick the guardian of the central nervous system.

No two neurons are alike. What does that mean for brain function?

Industry professionals make more than academic researchers, but for professors, it may not be about the money.

The university’s administration tried unsuccessfully to stop the vote.