Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

To study how a key chemical neuromodulator affects signaling in the brain's cortex, Garrett Neske, PhD, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Whitehall Foundation, a nonprofit ...

New research from Singapore tracked 168 children for over 10 years and found that babies exposed to high levels of screen ...

Your brain is constantly juggling information that arrives in a flash with thoughts that unfold over seconds, minutes, or ...

CVI refers to visual impairment resulting from injury to the brain’s visual pathways or visual cortex. Vision in CVI is not simply reduced clarity; rather, it affects how visual information is ...

In visual cortex, neural correlates of subjective perception can be generated by modulation of activity from beyond the classical receptive field (CRF). In macaque V1, activity generated by ...

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's brain develops, with effects that last well beyond childhood. But families ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...