A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers or fading signals. The advance makes it possible to watch individual brain ...

A new brain device from Northwestern University is asking a daring question: what if information could reach your brain ...

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By ...

Neuroscientists have long dreamed of watching thoughts unfold as they happen, without disturbing the fragile tissue that ...

One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

Two proteins found on the surface of motor neurons in the brain may be essential in the progression of Parkinson's disease, ...