Scientists studying mice have uncovered a delicate protein rivalry in the brain that, when thrown off balance, may cause ...

A new study reveals that autism-like symptoms in mice emerge when two nerve proteins—MDGA2 and BDNF—fall out of balance.

A new study reveals how the brain reprocesses and refines memories during sleep, particularly those related to spatial ...

The activity of an individual neuron is constrained by the anatomical organization of its presynaptic network (the set of neurons from which it receives information). In the mouse brain ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Whether mice persist with a task, explore new options or give up comes down to the activity of three types of neuron in the brain. In experiments, researchers at University College London (UCL ...

Movement neuron activity persisted even when sensory input ... More information: Ana R. Inácio et al, Brain-wide presynaptic networks of functionally distinct cortical neurons, Nature (2025).

New Delhi: Observing the activity of an individual brain cell in humans for the first ... This behaviour of an individual neuron, described in a paper in the journal Cell Reports, allows for ...