In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

When facing new situations or problems, humans typically rely on knowledge they acquired in the past. Specifically, ...

While some of us enjoy curling up with a good book, others prefer watching a series or playing video games. But from the ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence supporting a mechanism in which transposable elements (TEs), once considered ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have ...

A recent study has identified how specific puberty hormones relate to the physical structure and functional wiring of the ...

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

The amount of sugar in the brain plays a key role in governing the activity of the brain cells that make myelin, a study ...

Scientists analyzed dozens of studies in which millions of people participated and discovered how many hours of sleep per ...