Sensory Experience Shapes a Growing Brain: Regulation of Sensory-Dependent Circuit Refinement by TWEAK/Fn14 Cytokine Signaling from thescientistllc on Vimeo. Sensory experience sculpts neural ...

Human beings, like other animals, possess an enormous learning capacity that allows for the apprehension of new sensory information to master new skills or to adapt to an ever-changing environment.

In a first, researchers have revealed the complete sensory pathway that enables the skin to communicate temperatures to the brain. It turns out that cool temperatures have an individual, dedicated ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organises learned vocalisations such as birdsong.

Figure 1: Animals exhibit differential behavioural responses to harsh touch and gentle touch. We also tested the anus area, as C. elegans recruits a different set of neurons for harsh touch sensation ...

For the first time, scientists have generated a functional neural pathway for sensing pain in a dish. This could help unravel mechanisms of pain disorders. “This is important groundbreaking work,” ...

A fruit fly walks on a rolling ball. As it meanders, Kevin Daly, biology professor at West Virginia University, looks deep into its brain through a specialized microscope. He's studying how the brain ...

Far from being sick, motor neurons in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy are actually raring to fire. Unfortunately, they do not receive the signals telling them to do so. So conclude the ...

Neurobiologists have found that fruit flies are pre-programmed to take a nap in the middle of the day. The new article explores a 'thermometer' circuit for hot temperatures. On the hottest summer days ...

All animals need a means by which to distinguish sensory inputs caused by their own movements from sensory inputs that are due to sources in the outside world. One such means is provided by corollary ...

This heightened activity was linked to elevated oscillations in thalamocortical circuits, the loops that connect the thalamus and cortex. These rhythmic bursts have been associated with both seizures ...