New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this ...

Scientists have uncovered a way to manipulate the pathway in monkey brains that puts the brakes on motivation.

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

The nervous system is a marvel of biological engineering, composed of intricate networks that control every aspect of an ...

Researchers are uncovering how disrupted glutamatergic synapses drive diverse forms of intellectual disability, revealing new ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...