An efficient neural screening approach rapidly identifies circuit modules governing distinct behavioral transitions in ...

Scientists have identified a crucial mechanism that allows plants to shape their vascular systems, determining whether they ...

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

Northwestern University scientists have developed the most advanced organoid model for human spinal cord injury to date. In a ...

Small and dense but filled with vitally important neural fibers, the brainstem has been hard for brain imaging technologies to dissect. New software reliably and finely resolves eight distinct nerve ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

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