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The results help explain how the hippocampus can recall information about a place without an animal physically revisiting it.

Movement-sensing neurons that target the striatum influence a mouse's choice of action by favoring routine.

The real fun of being a neuroscientist, and maybe the key to asking and answering new questions, is to think big and take intellectual risks.

Streamlining the problem from 3D to 1D eases the expedition—a strategy the study investigators deployed to rewire an olfactory circuit in flies.

The interpeduncular nucleus produces an aversion to nicotine, even at low doses, and helps moderate how rewarding mice find the drug.

New findings on the role of neural activity in developing circuits are challenging our prior notions about the rules that govern critical periods.

Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked this spatial scale—which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in functional MRI technology are changing that.

First an educator and now an internationally recognized researcher, the Kenyan psychologist is changing autism science and services in sub-Saharan Africa.

Donald Hebb's theory—memorably summarized as “cells that fire together, wire together”—does not explain the shifting hippocampal connections in mice learning to navigate a virtual environment, according to a new study.

For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight from the octopus brain.

Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals' behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is beginning to pay off.

Regulatory T cells in the spinal meninges release endogenous opioids in a sex-specific manner, new work shows.

A competition that trains language models on relatively small datasets of words, closer in size to what a child hears up to age 13, seeks solutions to some of the major challenges of today's large language models.

The annual meeting brought autism researchers, advocates and clinicians to Seattle to discuss the latest research, including attempts to define subgroups, a potential new CHD8 macaque model and life expectancy gaps.

It's unclear if the cancellation at the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse extends to the fellowships awarded by other institutes within the National Institutes of Health.

Trainees from underrepresented backgrounds are losing pillars of support in the current funding climate. Grassroots mentorship organizations are stepping in to continue championing early-career researchers.

Valerio Mante and David Sussillo, along with their mentors Krishna Shenoy and Bill Newsome, revealed the complexity of neural population dynamics and the power of recurrent neural networks.

A lack of six new brain donors may stop the project from meeting its goal to pair molecular and cellular data with the functional organization of the cortex.

Whether looking back at his career highlights or forward to his latest projects, the psychiatrist is committed to supporting autistic people at every age.

The rapid eye movement (REM) phase preserves newly acquired memories, but deeper non-REM sleep helps to adapt and update them, according to “heroic” day-long electrode recordings in rats.

We need a new conceptual framework for understanding cognitive functions—particularly how globally distributed brain states are formed and maintained for hours.

Evolutionarily newer regions sport mitochondria with a higher capacity for energy production than older regions, according to the first detailed map of the organelles in a tissue slice, adding to mounting evidence that the brain features a metabolic gradient.

A game-changing cell culture method developed in Ben Barres' lab completely transformed the way we study astrocytes and helped me build a career studying their reactive substates.

Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.

But to fully grasp the tools' potential, we need to better understand how electric and magnetic fields interact with the brain.

Person-to-person variability in brain activity might represent meaningful differences in cognitive processes, rather than random noise.

It's time to fashion olfactory neuroscience stimuli based on odor concentrations in the wild, say study investigators Elizabeth Hong and Matt Wachowiak.

Recent technological advances provide a range of new and different information about brain physiology. But taking full advantage of these gains depends on collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists.

Researchers associated with the repositories received an email from the U.S. National Institutes of Health in March noting that they must comply with a 20 January executive order from President Trump that recognizes only two sexes: male and female.

A cubic millimeter of brain tissue, meticulously sectioned, stained and scrutinized over the past seven years, reveals in stunning detail the role of inhibitory interneurons in brain structure and function.

Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.

We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.

Transplanted cells offer insight into human-specific properties, such as a lengthy cortical development and sensitivity to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease.

Even in the absence of any formal instruction to do so, we should continue to hold our ourselves and our neuroscience colleagues accountable for SABV practices.

As this work begins to bear fruit, researchers “are becoming less afraid to ask very difficult questions that you can uniquely ask in people.”

A government spending bill, which was approved today by the House of Representatives and heads next to a Senate vote, allocates 20 percent less funding for the program than last year.

A lack of programming experience can derail experimental aspirations. But custom software packages, web-based applications and video tutorials make functional MRI concepts easier to grasp.

“It's hard to know what's real,” says neuroscientist Josh Dubnau after a dizzying week in which diversity-related grant applications were pulled from study sections only to be reinstated five days later, among other reversals.

Neuronal and non-neuronal cells throughout the brain also express genes—particularly those related to neuronal structure and immune function—differently in aged mice, according to a new atlas.

Although studying sex differences in the brain is complex, technically awkward and socioculturally loaded, it is absolutely essential.

The choroid plexus, the protective network of blood vessels and epithelial cells that line the brain's ventricles, recruits neutrophils and macrophages during inflammation, a new study shows.

As the history of this nascent discipline reveals, neuroscience has inspired advances in artificial intelligence, and AI has provided a testing ground for models in neuroscience, accelerating progress in both fields.

Leveraging start-up “dummy scans,” which are typically discarded in imaging analyses, can shorten an experiment's length and make data collection more efficient, a new study reveals.

New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.

Fiser's work taught me how to think about grounding computational models in biologically plausible implementations.

The NIH-sponsored effort aims to help incentivize scientists to share data. But many barriers to the widespread adoption of useful data-sharing remain.

Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?

A detailed look at a “pregnant brain” highlights a need to investigate the neural alterations that occur during a transition experienced by nearly 140 million people worldwide each year.

The field is grappling with whether to modify the long-standing theory of reward prediction error—or abandon it entirely.

The current Autism CARES Act sunsets in late September.

The current Autism CARES Act sunsets in late September.