Psychedelic medicines reopen critical periods for social learning

Neuroscientists have long sought techniques to reactivate critical periods in the brain, when animals are more...

Vitamin D affects growing neurons in brain's dopamine circuit

Using cutting-edge technologies, neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered how vitamin D...

Structured exploration enables brains to learn more quickly

Neuroscientists have discovered how exploratory behaviour helps animals learn their spatial surroundings more...

Anatomical changes in brains after patients sight is restored

Neuroscientists for many decades assumed that the brain could learn to make sense of visual input during a critical...

Neuroscientists identified predisposition to accidental awareness

Brain structures which could predict an individual's proclivity to accidental awareness under anaesthetic have been...

Study reveals how brains turn into smarter disease fighters

Combating Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has...

Study reveals adult brain contains millions of silent synapses

The adult brain contains millions of "silent synapses," which are immature connections between neurons that remain...

Researchers show organoids respond to external sensory stimuli

A team of engineers and neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that human brain organoids implanted in...

Study finds direct link between spatial goals, behaviour in brain

Mice use a specific brain mechanism to automatically flee to cover when threatened, according to study results from...

New biomarker test can identify Alzheimer's neurodegeneration

A team of neuroscientists led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researcher developed a blood test to...

Silent synapses are abundant in the adult brain: Study

Neuroscientists discovered that the adult brain contains millions of 'silent synapses' immature connections between...

Controversial Alzheimer's drug approval sparks surprising impact

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave controversial accelerated approval to the first Alzheimer's drug in...