Many people believe intelligence is a fixed trait you receive at birth and cannot change. Scientific discoveries paint a ...

A new sequencing-based method uses molecular barcodes to trace synaptic connections among neurons. The approach enables large ...

New research suggests that the brains of people with Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) struggle to communicate effectively during mentally tiring tasks. While ...

After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers found that surviving eye cells formed extra branches that restored ...

Visual experience triggers the formation of a web of neural connections in different brain areas in order to make sense of the world – and in particular, of feedback connections, which send ...