The assumption that waking life consists of a stream of conscious representations has inadvertently led consciousness science ...

Professor of psychology Reed College Michael Pitts is professor of psychology at Reed College. His research examines the ...

A process that uses a lottery system saves time and accepts that, above a quality threshold, luck has always played a part in ...

The transcription factors a Drosophila neuron expresses offer clues to its lineage and birth order—and ultimately how neural ...

Various genes show distinct exits and entrances with age in the open- source dataset, the largest of its kind to date.

Through a newly identified process called skoupocytosis, neurons recruit the immune cells to remove cellular waste they find ...

The models recapitulate many key developmental processes, but some radial glial cells in mouse organoids make neurons earlier ...

This article is more than five years old. Neuroscience—and science in general—is constantly evolving, so older articles may contain information or theories that have been reevaluated since their ...

Human cortical organoids transplanted into newborn mice integrate into the nervous system and form circuits that support ...

Kevin Mitchell talks with Huda Zoghbi about her work finding the MECP2 gene, dissecting the role it plays in the brain, and ...

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 21 September.

When newcomers join the band of biologists who study the magnetic sense of animals, they have 60 years of conflict to catch up on. They might be warned that it’s an “unhappy area of science,” as Eric ...