Northwestern researchers have developed a wireless device that uses patterns of light to send information directly to the ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

University of Rochester researchers have demonstrated a noninvasive method using BL-OG, or bioluminescent optogenetics, that harnesses light to activate neurons in the brain. The ability to regulate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new brain device from Northwestern University is asking a daring question: what if information could reach your brain without ...

Restoring lost senses or delivering precise brain signals has required invasive hardware and can’t mimic the brain’s natural, distributed activity patterns. This platform shows the brain can learn to ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

Researchers at Linköping University have developed a new type of pipette that can deliver ions to individual neurons without affecting the sensitive extracellular milieu. Researchers at Linköping ...

Understanding how animals, including humans, transform brain signals into coordinated movements is a fundamental question in neuroscience. In general, the brain sends movement instructions to the body ...

“If we go back to the early 1900s, this is when the idea was first proposed that memories are physically stored in some location within the brain,” says Michael R. Williamson, a researcher at the ...

Credit: Yongling Zhu, Ph.D. Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified how a subset of neurons enables the eyes to perceive motion, according to a study published in Nature Communications, a ...

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