“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number ...

UCLA researchers have identified neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex that become most active when decisions carry uncertain ...

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By profiling brains from healthy people aged one to 104, researchers found that mutations accumulate in some genes more than ...

Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine have used single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to identify a pattern of gene expression that can be used to predict whether or ...

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

A Nature Neuroscience study finds that special "illusion-encoding" neurons in the brain's visual cortex fill in missing ...

Scientists have discovered a group of brain cells in the orbitofrontal cortex that become more active when outcomes are uncertain, revealing how the brain adapts and learns from unpredictable ...

The patterns created by neurons in the brain can be used to shine a light on how the brain functions, and take us a step closer to creating intelligent robots, scientists claim. The international team ...