Researchers developed an advanced AI system named YORU that can identify specific animal behaviors with over 90% accuracy ...

Optogenetics has ignited a revolution in neuroscience. Although this decree may sound like hype, researchers in the field disagree, saying the technique is allowing them to understand brain function ...

Please can you give an introduction to optogenetics? How was this technology inspired by psychiatry? Optogenetics is a way of introducing information into the brain using light, it targets specific ...

Then scientists deployed dyes, and lo, the intricate branching of brain cells called neurons was revealed. It was good but didn’t show which cells rubbed branches with others. After a time, scientists ...

Apart from detox and a long, arduous rehabilitation process, there are very few things that science can do to reverse conditions such as addiction. But scientists from the University of Oxford have ...

Optogenetics has greatly enlarged the scope of neuroscience by making possible the study of particular neural circuit components in both normal and diseased states. Credit: ktsdesign/ Shutterstock.com ...

Have you ever wondered how the brain is able to see things that are not really there? A hallucination is a perception formed without external stimuli. Last week, neuroscientists at the Stanford ...

A minimally invasive optogenetic technique that does not require brain implants successfully manipulated the activity of neurons in mice and monkeys, researchers report. The researchers first ...

Editor’s Note: Leonard Mlodinow is the author, most recently of, “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior.” He teaches at California Institute of Technology. The hottest field in ...