Delivered at just the right time, this type of auditory stimulus can strengthen the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, which clears debris from the brain and keeps it healthy.

The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought—and a unified awareness of thought and experience—arises from analog computations carried out by electrical waves, MIT neuroscientists ...

A new study adds evidence that electric fields in the brain help to organize and shape underlying neural activity via “ephaptic coupling.” ...

Brain cells take in many signals through thousands of circuit connections. A new study in mice discerns the rules that turn what could be a cacophony of inputs into a functional arrangement for ...

… Lab. Essentially, by meticulously mapping every thalamic synapse on 15 neurons in layer 2/3 of the visual cortex in … individual visual cortex neurons. The variance in thalamic synapse numbers was ...

FINGERS-7B integrates lifestyle, clinical, genomic, and proteomic data from tens of thousands of at-risk individuals to discover multi-omic biomarkers for preclinical Alzheimer's ...

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at ...

Sara Prescott (left) discusses a research image with students Julia Van Goor (middle) and Emma Ibanez (right). Photo by Corban Swain. This set of values shines through within her lab climate as a ...

Three new neural network-based tools enable fast, accurate alignment and annotation of images even in very wiggly subjects. The tools might offer a way to automate cell tracking in other imaging ...

A collaboration centered at MIT discovered that mice modeling the autism spectrum disorder fragile X syndrome exhibit the same pattern of differences in low-frequency waves as human patients, ...

The gist: Nerve bundles in the brainstem are hard to see clearly with brain scans. A new AI tool can reliably map eight bundles in the living human brainstem in diffusion MRI scans. This technology ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...