Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

New research shows that sleep loss alters specific memory circuits, but also hints that a familiar compound may help restore them in unexpected ways. Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine ...

Decision neuroscience is a rapidly advancing field aimed at understanding how neural circuits give rise to behavioral choices. Recent research highlights ...

Axons, the fundamental output structures of neurons, play a pivotal role in transmitting electrical signals over long ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...

The ability to measure the connectivity of each neuron in a neural circuit has established large maps of neuronal pathways—the connectome. But the extent to which those connectivity measurements alone ...

Researchers have revealed neural circuits in the brainstem that are crucially involved in implementing decisions by controlling three fundamental behavioral states or strategies: perseverance, ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, shining light on previously unseen neural connections and lesser-known ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...