The adolescent brain may be uniquely vulnerable to nicotine. Vaping rewires brain regions involved in impulse control and ...

Much of our understanding of experience-dependent plasticity originates from the level of single cells and synapses through the well-established techniques of whole-cell recording and calcium imaging.

In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, biomedical engineers have shown how two brain regions quickly ...

DOI: 10.1038/s44220-025-00397-4 The cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, is the central driver of various human capabilities, including decision-making, perception, language and memory.

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience has found that male and female mice rely on different brain circuits to process threatening situations, even though they behave in much the same way. While ...

To study the genetic causes of autism spectrum disorder, a Kobe University research team has created a bank of 63 mouse embryonic stem cell lines containing the mutations most strongly associated ...