Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

A thin strip of flexible film, printed with layers of graphene and molybdenum disulfide ink, fired electrical spikes into a ...

We can get silicon to "think" but the neuron can't be beat for efficiency. So, researchers worked to imitate it.

How does the gut talk to the brain? A new study identifies polysaccharides and peptidoglycans as the key bacterial signals ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

If humans or animals eat something that causes them to feel unwell, they subsequently avoid this food source. Until now, it ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

Northwestern University scientists have identified a universal "communication tempo" of roughly 2 hertz across diverse ...

Altered communication between the immune and nervous systems may influence the clinical severity of viral hepatitis, suggesting the disease involves systemic mechanisms beyond the liver. Researchers ...

In a study published in Neuron, Ciaran Murphy-Royal, researcher at the Center de recherche du Center hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), and his team show that astrocyte activity in the ...