A virtual tour of the animal facility of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience shows how research animals...
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Spot the difference: Brain changes that enable fine visual...
Our visual perception of the world is often thought of as relatively stable. However, like all of our cognitive functions...
Silence for thought: special interneuron networks in the human...
Scientists map prominent differences in the neural circuits of mice, monkeys, and human The analysis of the human brain is...
Never Forget
A memorial sculpture at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research commemorates the tragic history of the predecessor...
Getting in the Groove: Why samba makes everyone want to dance
Year after year, carnival in Rio makes one thing perfectly clear: samba moves people. The pounding drums elicit exuberant...
Estimating the pace of change
Novel approach for determining timescales might pave way for new insights in neuroscience An international team of...
Prefrontal cortex involved in conscious vision
Use of ambiguous visual stimuli to disambiguate the neural correlates of consciousness An international group of...
Out of rhythm: Compromised precision of theta-gamma coupling...
Episodic memory declines with advancing adult age. This decline is particularly pronounced when associations between items...
Near-natural, fractal architecture promotes well-being
Basic researchers call for urban design based on scientific facts An interdisciplinary group of researchers uses basic...
Locus coeruleus integrity is related to tau burden and memory...
Abnormally phosphorylated tau, an indicator of Alzheimer’s disease, accumulates in the first decades of life in the...