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Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Learn the new science of brain development and discover the importance of connections and learning for ongoing brain health.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

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Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...

Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. Researchers found that both amyloid beta and inflammation converge on the same ...

The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...