To study how a key chemical neuromodulator affects signaling in the brain's cortex, Garrett Neske, PhD, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Whitehall Foundation, a nonprofit ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans was first accomplished in 2014 when brain-computer interfaces helped transmit a message from India to France. Since then, some progress has been made on ...

Every moment, the brain balances signals that unfold at different speeds. Some arrive in milliseconds, such as a sudden sound ...

Neuroscientists are finding that when two people interact, their brains do not work in isolation. Instead, patterns of activity in one brain begin to mirror patterns in another, hinting that human ...

The brain’s chatter has always been partly out of reach, with electrical spikes easy to record but the chemical whispers ...

A new protein sensor lets researchers see incoming brain signals, revealing how neurons process information tied to memory ...

The human brain contains nearly 86 billion neurons, constantly exchanging messages like an immense social media network, but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and ...

University of Florida esearchers learned that people who had healthier lifestyle behaviors were more likely to have a younger ...