New Neuropixels technology provides evidence of mosaic-like neural connections For the first time, neuroscientists from...
Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia
Different flavors of inhibition save the day
Scientists gain insights on how deprivation-induced synaptic changes affect excitatory and inhibitory firing rates in the...
Gamma rhythms – a phenomenon simpler than thought?
Gamma rhythms in the brain are neither self-sustaining nor regular. But many earlier models assumed just that. ESI...
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...
Hitchhiking through the nerve cell
Cellular power plants carry along blueprints to make new proteins at their destination “If you’re going on a...
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...