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Catching a bouncing ball or hitting a ball with a racket requires estimating when the ball will arrive. Neuroscientists have long thought that the brain does this by calculating the speed of the moving object.

For the past decade, neuroscientists have been using a modified version of the rabies virus to label neurons and trace the connections between them.

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Neurons in the brain communicate via rapid electrical impulses that allow the brain to coordinate behavior, sensation, thoughts, and emotion.

Polina Anikeeva was born in Leningrad, USSR, but grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia; the city’s name reverted to its original form after the fall of the Soviet Union.

It’s intuitive that anesthesia operates in the brain, but the standard protocol among anesthesiologists when monitoring and dosing patients during surgery is to rely on indirect signs of arousal such as movement, and chang

The team that first unveiled the rapid, inexpensive, highly sensitive CRISPR-based diagnostic tool called SHERLOCK has greatly enhanced the tool’s power, and has deve

Fragile X syndrome is the most frequent cause of intellectual disability in males, affecting one out of every 3,600 boys born.

A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income families.

Neurons are the star of the show in brain science, but MIT researchers believe they don’t work alone to process information.