brain circuits

Spontaneous waves of nerve impulses flowing across the retina help mouse pups practice motion detection for when they eventually open their eyes.

The silicon chips receive and send electrical signals, recreating activity from neurons in the rat brain that play a role in breathing and thinking.

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.

Identifying the molecular interactions that occur all over the body during exercise could reveal how it affects learning and memory.

Scientists have proposed a variety of features that influence one’s ability to remember things and solve problems.

As researchers unravel the molecular machinery that links exercise and cognition, working out is emerging as a promising neurotherapy.

Imaging, behavioral, and genetic data yield clues to what’s behind effective thinking.

Chronic stress tweaks a circuit in the brain that influences how lab rodents make tough decisions. 

To tease apart brain regions involved in forming versus remembering memories, scientists engineered mice whose brain cells could be manipulated and tagged.

His first love was dance, but Erich Jarvis has long courted another love—understanding how the brain learns vocalization.