This valuable study shows that locomotion-related modulations in the mouse visual cortex are not uniform but primarily affect neurons in muscarinic receptor-negative patches, which receive projections ...

scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston began by using specialized microscopes to record the brain activity in a 1-cubic-millimeter portion of tissue in a lab mouse’s visual cortex ...

Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a realistic simulation of the mouse ... cortex, which could simulate the ...

During brain development ... neurons are found outside the motor cortex. Why is this? To answer this question, the neuroscientists focused on the mouse. "The technologies currently available ...

using a mouse engineered with a gene that makes its neurons glow when they’re active. The researchers used a laser-powered ...

using a mouse engineered with a gene that makes its neurons glow when they’re active. The researchers used a laser-powered microscope to record how individual cells in the animal’s visual cortex lit ...

Thanks to a mouse watching ... animal’s visual cortex lit up as they processed the images flashing by. Next, scientists at the Allen Institute analyzed that small piece of brain tissue, using ...

The global team created the largest, most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date from a tiny slice of mouse visual cortex, 1 cubic millimeter in size. It contains more than 523 ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex ...

A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes ... The secondary motor cortex (M2) acted as a "sensory gatekeeper." ...

Thanks to a mouse watching ... animal’s visual cortex lit up as they processed the images flashing by. Next, scientists at the Allen Institute analyzed that small piece of brain tissue, using ...