Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

University of Tennessee, Knoxville neuroscientist Keerthi Krishnan studies how genes, especially MECP2, shape brain ...

The hippocampus follows a "tabula plena" model, starting with dense, random connections that are pruned into an efficient ...

For most of the 20th century, the scientific consensus held that the adult brain was essentially fixed, unable to grow new connections or recover lost function after a critical window in childhood.

Neuroscientists have identified a novel form of neuroplasticity, behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), that enables the brain to encode memories from a single experience. The mechanism, ...

Your brain is an amazing organ that changes, adapts, and even gets sharper when you use it — no matter how old you are. And the more you do for your brain, the more benefits you’ll see in return. That ...

Have you ever been trapped in your car in mud or snow, and couldn’t leave until someone pulled you out? Researchers have discovered a psychedelic may act like the huge truck pulling your car (or mind) ...

Recent advances in large-scale AI models, including large language and vision-language-action models, have significantly expanded the capabilities of ...

Neuroplasticity and development have traditionally focused on synaptic mechanisms as the primary substrates of circuit remodeling. However, recent advances ...

Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci ...