Latest Neuroscience Breakthroughs

Mice that only watched fights later fought more like experienced fighters, with shared brain changes

In mice, astrocytes in an early bulbous state release a signal microglia need to eat the synapses beside them

Separately knocking down 18 autism genes in lab-grown neural cells lowered many of the same other autism genes

In four patients, single magnetic pulses to the prefrontal cortex changed firing in 46% of recorded neurons

The first complete male fruit fly nervous system, brain and nerve cord, at synaptic resolution

Two monkey brain areas format the same signals differently, and stimulating each changed choices differently

A neuron surface protein, NRXN3, gives a handle for pulling candidate neuron vesicles from blood

First adult fruit fly connectome joining brain and ventral nerve cord

Only one deep-layer cortical output cell type gains categorical responses as mice learn to categorize sounds

A model reads typed sentences off magnetic recordings of the brain, with no implant

Neuropixels probe fusing 960 recording sites with on-shank optogenetic light emitters

Single-cell multiomic profiling maps hippocampal neurogenesis across ageing and Alzheimer's disease

A REG3A-to-KHSRP axonal loop brakes peripheral nerve regeneration through localized mRNA translation

Normal sleep raises plasma amyloid beta and tau versus sleep deprivation in a randomized crossover trial

A subretinal photovoltaic implant plus infrared glasses gave most trial patients back central sight in a disease with no prior treatment.