Researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes.

Researchers at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the ...