After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers found that surviving eye cells formed extra branches that restored ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial ...

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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - You can hear cold and flu season: people coughing, sneezing, the phone ringing as people call in sick. Health care officials say respiratory illnesses in our area are spiking. The ...

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These devices emulate how neurons use chemicals to transmit and process signals, ...

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For decades, scientists have tried to build electronics that behave like the brain. The idea is called neuromorphic computing in which chips are designed to copy the way our brain’s neurons fire and ...

Michael Smerconish investigates the roots of political violence in the USA, highlighting that age and mental health, rather than ideology, are the primary factors. Citing historical and contemporary ...

(Nanowerk News) Our brains are masters of efficiency. “Biology is very energy optimized,” says Yevgeny Berdichevsky, an associate professor of bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering at ...

Because of their bursty and aperiodic nature, inferring causal relationships between spike trains recorded from different neurons remains a significant challenge. Traditional causality detection ...