A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and ...

Bob Dylan famously asked, “How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?”. The power of the question is that there is no answer – and comparing the tribulations of one person’s ...

So a baby can detect outside signals, the brain cells use a a "pump" that drains chloride out of newborn neurons, making these highly chaotic, developing cells quiet down. Researchers have figured out ...

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An estimated 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson's disease--an incurable neurodegenerative disorder that leads to an increasing loss of motor control. If we could peer into the ...