A sketch of the whole methodology for the continuous monitoring of the organoid synaptic activity through the analysis of neural activity from hFOs using MEA and a GDN model. Neural signals are ...

Adam Nelson, a principal investigator in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, led a study that used mice to show that social hierarchy involves status-dependent behavioral interactions that ...

I have been fascinated by dreams ever since I read Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams when I was 13. Of course, in Freud’s time, psychiatrists had to rely on case histories and abstract discussions.

Summary: Researchers identified a small group of dopamine neurons in the striatum that play a crucial role in balancing essential brain functions such as reward, cognition, and movement. This ...

Researchers using mini-brain models have found that autism spectrum disorder might stem from an imbalance in specific brain neurons essential for communication. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: ...

Adding new neurons to the adult brain is a dramatic example of neuroplasticity. Adult songbirds add many new neurons to HVC, a forebrain region important for producing learned song. Adult neurogenesis ...

A trio of researchers (from left) Xiaoxu Yang, Changuk Chung and Joseph G. Gleeson led a study that advanced the understanding of the structure of the human brain on the cellular level. All three are ...

This valuable article examines the role of basal forebrain cholinergic (ACh) projection neurons and their inputs to the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and effects on BLA activity during reward seeking.

Dreams were once thought to be messages from the gods or omens of the future; we now understand that they are neither. In 1900, Sigmund Freud believed that the contents of dreams cannot be taken in ...