From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, ...

Older adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) face a higher risk of developing age-related dementias like ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

Researchers in optics and brain and cognitive science are investigating whether neurons can transmit light in a manner ...

How we think, feel, see, talk and move are due to neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain – how they’re activated and send ...

The brain really is an incredible organ, and neurons are the vital link between, well, everything. The brain is anything but set in stone; how we think, feel, reason, and understand the world changes ...

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ...

Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in photonics, today announces the launch of the Axon FL, a fiber coupling module ...