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How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs Dec 15, 2025

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A growing list of medications-such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines-exist because of insights from basic research.

Waves of calcium activity dictate eye structure in flies Dec 12, 2025

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Synchronized signals in non-neuronal retinal cells draw the tiny compartments of a fruit fly's compound eye into alignment during pupal development.

What is the future of organoid and assembloid regulation? Dec 10, 2025

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Four experts weigh in on how to establish ethical guardrails for research on the 3D neuron clusters as these models become ever more complex.

Exclusive: Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on 'bonkers' dataset Dec 08, 2025

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The dataset contains images of children's faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience Dec 08, 2025

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Generative artificial intelligence will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between neural function and behavior.

Psilocybin rewires specific mouse cortical networks in lasting ways Dec 05, 2025

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Neuronal activity induced by the psychedelic drug strengthens inputs from sensory brain areas and weakens cortico-cortical recurrent loops.

Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience Dec 03, 2025

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Machine learning should not be a replacement for human judgment but rather help us embrace the various assumptions and interpretations that shape behavioral research.

This paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on learning the value of population coding Dec 01, 2025

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The 2013 Nature paper by Mattia Rigotti and his colleagues revealed how mixed selectivity neurons-cells that are not selectively tuned to a stimulus-play a key role in cognition.

Noninvasive method lifts curtain on cerebrospinal-fluid dance in human brain Nov 14, 2025

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Cerebrospinal fluid shows brain-region-specific dynamics, a new high-resolution MRI approach reveals.

Aging as adaptation: Learning the brain's recipe for resilience Nov 14, 2025

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Some age-related changes in the brain and in behavior are not solely the result of cognitive decline but rather part of a larger adaptive process.