(Nanowerk Spotlight) Efforts to design computing systems that operate more like the brain have pushed engineers to rethink how information is processed, transmitted, and stored. Biological neurons are ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists have found that the brain's internal GPS changes each time we navigate a familiar, static environment. This means that if someone walks the same ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information. How does the well-controlled and yet highly nimble nature of ...

The brain creates internal 'maps' to help us navigate and learn from our surroundings, but how these maps form remains a challenge to understand. Now, a study led by Liset M. de la Prida at the Cajal ...

The molecular signature of key sensory neurons that signal neuropathic pain has been uncovered, revealing a potential pathway for relieving chronic pain. “We know from direct human physiological ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists found the brain’s internal GPS changes each time we navigate a familiar, static environment. This means that if someone walks the same path ...

We often think of memory as stable—a mental archive that stores experiences in neat, retrievable files. But what if those files quietly shift positions, even when the original experience hasn’t ...

Strapped with an extra APP, people with Down’s syndrome are all but destined to develop Alzheimer’s dementia if they live past middle age. Compared with sporadic forms of the disease, DSAD starts ...