The recurrent h∆K–PFG neural circuit generates persistent heading memories through slow excitation, fast inhibition and a disinhibitory gate, where disinhibition controls the functional...

It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different

The Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position. The successful ...

The Cajal Club remembers Barbara L. Finlay, an influential developmental and evolutionary neuroscientist whose pioneering research transformed our understanding of brain evolution and development, and...

A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

Monoamines such as serotonin, dopamine, and tyramine regulate physiological and behavioral processes in bilaterian animals, but the evolutionary origi…

Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...

Salamanders have outstanding regenerative abilities, which tend to decline in post-metamorphic life stages. Among various tissues, these amphibians can regenerate the brain from ependymoglia cells, an...

Evolutionary changes in cortical development were instrumental in the emergence of the mammalian neocortex. Cajal-Retzius cells, a transient neuron ty…

Post-transcriptional regulation of mRNA translation was explored using Ribo-STAMP and single-cell RNA sequencing to reveal cell-type-specific and isoform-specific translation patterns across hipp...

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

The emergence of predation and associated complex behaviors in jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes) have been major driving forces in brain evolution. To gain insight into the neuronal complexity of the l...