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MRI scans suggest runners’ brains might use the fatty substance myelin as fuel. The finding could lead to treatments for neurological diseases.

The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.

Sensory experience transforms endogenously structured cortical networks with diverse and unreliable visual responses into reliable representations. This process is proposed to involve the alignment of feedforward and recurrent networks.

Through circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice, Klune, Goodpaster and colleagues reveal multiple developmental switches in mPFC–NAc and mPFC–BLA pathways that underlie developmental...

The dictum “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” poses a problem for biology. How simply can it be told without doing damage to its complex nature? The answer might be foun...

The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.

Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...

A muscle hormone controls the mammalian reproductive system

Multi-modal transcriptomic analyses of the sympathetic nervous system reveal organ-specific neural innervation and modular regulation of visceral functions.

Naderi and Kwak et al. developed IPAA, an integrated cellular/bioinformatics platform. IPAA derisks drug discovery by integrating Alzheimer’s brain gene expression with cellular model functional reado...

The temporal microstructure of the brain can multiplex distinct cognitive processes during sleep to support continuous learning.

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The neocortex and striatum are topographically organized for sensory and motor functions. While sensory and motor areas are lateralized for touch and motor control, respectively, frontal areas are inv...

Recent advances in RNA analysis have deepened our understanding of cellular states in biological tissues. However, a substantial gap remains in integrating RNA expression data with spatial context acr...

To guide adaptive behavior and support predictions in real-life contexts, the brain may rely on opaque, over-parameterized models capable of directly fitting to the multidimensional world, while being...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found a molecule that can both help the intestines to heal after damage and suppress tumour growth in colorectal cancer. The discovery could lead to new treat...

At early developmental stages, spontaneous activity in the mammalian cortex is characterized by the occurrence of highly synchronous network events. Portera-Cailliau and colleagues describe these acti...

Stereotyped neural sequences are often exhibited in the brain, yet the neurophysiological mechanisms