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Previous attempts at building a chemical computer have been too simple, too rigid or too hard to scale, but an approach based ...

Anxiety can feel like a storm that starts deep inside the skull. For years, neuroscientists have known that the amygdala — an ...

In neocortical circuits, repetitively active neurons evoke unitary postsynaptic potentials (PSPs) whose peak amplitudes either increase (facilitate) or decrease (depress) progressively. To examine the ...

A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are ...

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Despite widespread skepticism, the National Science Foundation and DARPA have invested millions of dollars in organoid-based ...

Now a Chinese team, led by Peng Zhou and Wenzhong Bao at Fudan University, has developed a top-gate (TG) 2D ...

Rice University bioengineers have demonstrated a nonsurgical way to quiet a seizure-relevant brain circuit in an animal model. The team used low-intensity focused ultrasound to briefly open the ...

Every small-cap investor is looking for the next company that quietly builds real value while everyone else is distracted by ...

Apollo Hospitals neurologist Dr Sudhir Kumar responds to Deepinder Goyal’s “gravity-ageing” hypothesis with 10 lifestyle ...