New TSRI study shows how brain maps develop to help us perceive the world.

For answers, researchers turned to mice, stem cells, and the “tooth fairy”

Researchers at the University of Michigan have shown how a single neuron can perform multiple functions in a model organism, illuminating for the first time this fundamental biological mechanism and shedding light on the human brain.

Sometimes, words just complicate things. What if our brains could communicate directly with each other, bypassing the need for language?

Fear of loss, combined with positive or negative incentives, influences performance.

Maggot infestations, rotting carcasses, unidentifiable gunk in the kitchen sink – how much your brain responds to disgusting images could predict whether you are liberal or conservative. 

The team used the help of a tiny, 3D-printed harness to keep the spiders in place while conducting their experiments.

Findings strengthen link between specific brain region and normal memory decline.

Probes have potential to map neural activity in the human brain.

Scientists have described a way to convert human skin cells directly into a specific type of brain cell affected by Huntington’s disease, an ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorder. Unlike other techniques that turn one cell type into another, this new process does not pass through a stem cell phase, avoiding the production of multiple cell types, the study’s authors report.