It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision ...

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's ...

A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

Young minds are easily molded. Each new experience rewires a child's brain circuitry, adding and removing synaptic ...

Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

New research shows how CCN1, a protein secreted by astrocytes, is critical for stabilizing neural circuits in adulthood.