The whole-brain map—the first of its kind in a vertebrate—identifies five distinct neuron groups.

The method, called SORDINO, captures brain images in animals while they move and interact.

The findings provide a new perspective on how granule cells in the cerebellum help to generalize across tasks.

Gene activity across 17 mouse models occurs in one of two molecular states, suggesting diverse genetic changes converge on a few biological patterns.

Since Alzheimer’s disease researcher José Luna-Muñoz assumed leadership of the facility—Latin America’s oldest—in 2011, he has been acquiring additional tissue types and is working to expand donor…

Each of the frog’s eight fingers branches into 16 ultra-sensitive tips, which together function as a fovea.

The findings provide a new perspective on how granule cells in the cerebellum help to generalize across tasks.

The assumption that waking life consists of a stream of conscious representations has inadvertently led consciousness science to its current impasse.

A process that uses a lottery system saves time and accepts that, above a quality threshold, luck has always played a part in science funding.

The transcription factors a <em>Drosophila</em> neuron expresses offer clues to its lineage and birth order—and ultimately how neural circuits emerge.

The organoids show shifts in gene expression along the anterior-posterior axis that match those seen during the second trimester of fetal development.

Various genes show distinct exits and entrances with age in the open- source dataset, the largest of its kind to date.

Mihai Petrovici explains what neuromorphic computing is and how it can speed up and reduce energy consumption in AI and brain simulations.

Through a newly identified process called skoupocytosis, neurons recruit the immune cells to remove cellular waste they find hard to deal with themselves.

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The models recapitulate many key developmental processes, but some radial glial cells in mouse organoids make neurons earlier than they should.

Kevin Mitchell talks with Huda Zoghbi about her work finding the MECP2 gene, dissecting the role it plays in the brain, and developing new therapies.

Meanwhile, researchers are publishing papers without “sufficient quality control,” says analytical chemist Dušan Materić.

“A month is crazy,” says one former recipient, referring to a new funding opportunity’s timeline.

The Transmitter and Neuromatch surveyed more than 300 early-career neuroscientists to better understand their unique challenges, career aspirations and support needs.

Learn about neuroscientists who have started new labs or independent lines of research in Latin America over the past five years.

In a wide-ranging and provocative interview, the chair of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee shares her views on vaccines, regression, neuroimmune conditions and more.

Andrea Gambarotto shares what Hegel and enactivism have in common: an agency-first approach to understanding minds and brains.

Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with complex information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations.

Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.

A 2011 Nature study found that loss of a nicotinic receptor subunit leads to increased nicotine intake in mice.

The chimeric mice could help untangle the biology of human brain development or conditions such as autism.

At Blackrock Neurotech, Spencer Kellis develops implantable devices that help people with brain and spinal cord conditions communicate, move and more.

The Transmitter and Neuromatch surveyed more than 300 early-career neuroscientists to better understand their unique challenges, career aspirations and support needs.

Infantile amnesia is not simply a story about forgetting the past. It is an opportunity to understand how memory itself is built.

Researchers have dueled for years over how the magnetic sense works. New data from monarch butterflies could finally help settle the debate.

Explore how researchers in six Latin American countries conduct high-quality research in the face of numerous obstacles.

Negative reactions to sensations track with certain neurodevelopmental traits in more than 15,000 children—pointing to shared neurobiological roots.

Progress in physics-based simulators and robotics makes it easier to use neuromechanical modeling to test hypotheses about animal movement.

When flies encounter a tasty smell, they stroll in and out of the odor plume to keep track of it, encoding a memory of the angle they need to travel.

Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path.

Two years into one of the most tumultuous tenures in U.S. federal funding, researchers outline how they are coping with ongoing changes and reflect on the impact these changes are having on the system...