New research has identified distinct neural circuits for the anti-anxiety and hallucinogenic effects of psychedelics.

Researchers at MIT took advantage of this to create the most accurate functional brain map to date, charting specific ...

Brain wiring diagrams are a first step towards understanding ... level maps and use these to better understand cell types and ...

Scientists have successfully reprogrammed astroglia, a type of brain support cell, into neurons that mimic specific ...

A study found that a simple brain circuit involving BDNF neurons controls jaw movements and eating behavior, acting like a ...

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The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry were seen as a sweep for artificial intelligence (AI) tools which, at their ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

The map provides a wiring diagram, known as a connectome ... with a new set of tools for understanding how the circuits in ...

One leading brain specialist independent of the new ... Other researchers are already using the circuit diagrams, for example to work out why flies are so difficult to swat. The vision circuits ...

New research suggests that it could be possible to separate treatment from hallucinations when developing new drugs based on ...

Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods are finally delivering answers to an age-old question.