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Cells called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring out ...
A new study has uncovered how the brain efficiently encodes and recalls visual memories—by organizing them into categories ...
A new study shows that astrocytes use a protein called Gat3 to manage ambient GABA levels, helping neurons work together to ...
Researchers at the University of Southern California have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the human ...
Cells called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring out ...
Opinion

Death of the dictionary

The Gutenberg revolution appears to be waning as the written word, the defining mark of civilisation—whether on Babylonian stelae or in racy detective novels—re ...
A Bayesian decoder was employed to calculate the posterior probabilities of all position bins. This method assumes that transient counts follow a Poisson distribution and combines transient counts and ...
While persistent aggressive states in females are promoted by select cell types with recurrent connections (aIPg, pC1d+e), additional data and models are needed to explain the maintenance of these ...