For the first time, scientists have generated a functional neural pathway for sensing pain in a dish. This could help unravel ...

Scientists have recreated the brain circuit responsible for transmitting feelings of pain for the first time. The ...

but the brain circuits involved are largely unknown. In the current study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Texas Health Science Center ...

A cruel consequence of advanced cancer is the profound apathy many patients experience as they lose interest in once-cherished activities.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The neural wiring of vocal circuits in zebra finches has been mapped, revealing how the brain organizes learned vocalizations like birdsong. The study highlights ...

Science is essential as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency carries out its mission to protect human health and the ...

According to a Financial Times report, a research team at Stanford University has become the first to assemble a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish by combining different types of neurons grown ...

To map the synaptic connectivity of the HVC region, Trusel and colleagues used an optimised version of optogenetic circuit mapping, which allowed them to manipulate auditory and thalamic inputs ...