brain

Attempts to Forget the Past Make It Harder to Remember the Present

The lifetime of memories

How to print a brain - the initial steps

Evolution does not care

The universal cellular process of autophagy that is highly important for young worms becomes malfunctioned in old worms and leads to a shorter life.

The Lego bricks of the brain

The neocortex is the largest part of our brain and plays central roles in perception, body control, thoughts, and memory. We found that the neocortex contains...

Could our gut’s microbes be the guardians of our brain’s health?

Microorganisms inhabiting our gut degrade certain nutrients into molecules capable of activating brain-resident immune cells to control inflammation. This...

Overturning the hypothesis for how humans evolved language

Few traits are as uniquely human as complex spoken language. Language, therefore, has interested evolutionary biologists and neuroscientists seeking to...

‘Online’ integration of sensory and fear memories

A stimulus never associated before with danger becomes frightening when elements of a past sensory memory become integrated into a new fear memory. But when...

Hunting new-born neurons in the human adult brain

The continuous generation of new neurons during lifetime is crucial for learning and memory. In humans, we found a mild decrease in the number of these...

On where altruistic behaviour can be found in our brain

What neuroscience has found about the brains of “selfish” and “selfless” people? To understand what is really driving our behaviour, scientists need to look...

How machine intelligence helps in translating the neural code

What happens when visually responsive neurons in the primate brain are allowed to interact with artificial neural networks that generate images?

How Does Memory Guide Learning? Birds Can Answer

Inherent complexities of the human brain make it difficult to pinpoint the process of memory encoding. Turning to songbirds, we identify memory circuits by...