Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Scientists have uncovered a way to manipulate the pathway in monkey brains that puts the brakes on motivation.

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

New research from the University of St Andrews, the University of Copenhagen and Drexel University has developed AI computational models that predict ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William A. Haseltine, Ph.D., covers genomics and regenerative medicine A recent study from Cell inches us closer to understanding ...

Brain stimulation might sound like some Frankensteinian demonstration from a Victorian science fair. But in reality, it is a contemporary technique making a huge impact in neuroscience by addressing a ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

A research team led by Hiroshima University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have proposed a neuroendocrine ...