Neurosurgeon Dr Brian outlines the brain's process during coffee consumption, highlighting the different parts that get activated during the coffee experience.

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The process of deciphering information conveyed by neurons in the human brain is known as neural coding. Conventionally, it has been done by considering how neurons change their rate of firing ...

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Cellular measures of ageing changed more slowly in the liver, brain and other tissues of monkeys taking the drug metformin. Credit: Vachira Vachira/NurPhoto/Getty.

In a new study published Oct. 22 in the journal Neuron, Yale researchers show that this clutter alters how information flows in the brain, as does the precise location of that clutter within the wider ...

From a cubic millimeter of tissue, scientists constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in the brain? That is ...

Research that is taking a closer look at activity in the thalamus—a region long considered a relay station for the brain and ...

"Learning and memory are generally associated with brains and brain cells alone, but our study shows that other cells in the body can learn and form memories, too," explains New York University's ...

Neurons are the basic units of the brain. OpenStax, CC BY-SA. For decades, neuroscientists have thought that the brain learns by changing how neurons are connected to one another.