Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

To make a deliberate action in a volatile environment, the brain must frequently reassess the value of each action (action-value). Choice can be initially made from the experience of trial-and-errors, ...

Decades before Alzheimer’s disease symptoms appear, neurons become hyperactive, and the reason could be that astrocytes fail to keep them in check. In a bioRxiv preprint uploaded on April 26, ...