Cellular power plants carry along blueprints to make new proteins at their destination “If you’re going on a...
Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia
Estimating the pace of change
Novel approach for determining timescales might pave way for new insights in neuroscience An international team of...
The dark matter of the brain
Omnipresent and yet hardly explored: Electrical synapses. They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet...
Asymmetry as a building block of neuronal computations
Structure and function of neurons are closely linked in the cerebral cortex. One of the most exciting questions in...
Ready, Set … GO!
Scientists discover a brain circuit that triggers the execution of planned movement. Planned movement is essential to our...
Prediction games in the brain
In the primary visual cortex, neurons fire particularly strongly when prediction errors occur. And, unlike previously...
Coherence turned upside down
When Marius Schneider starts his PhD at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, he would not dare to dream that...
Understanding Binocular Vision: How MPFI Researchers are Working...
Everything we see, from a work of art to the laugh lines on a loved one’s face, are seen not only with our eyes but...
Two new research groups at the Max Planck Institute for Brain...
Alison Barker and Vanessa Stempel joined the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research as new research group leaders in...
Dendritic constancy – equality in the brain
Equal rights in the brain? A new ESI paper shows that the call for equal rights also affects one of the smallest...