Neuroscience News

The first time any eye-brain connections have ever been restored in a mammal — a step millions of people suffering from serious vision loss will be happy to hear about.

There has to be some kind of switch in your brain that unconsciously transitions your exertions from one set of muscle groups to the other set. (Caution: Do not think about this while you’re walking. You’ll trip.)

A team of Bio-X scientists applied microscopy know-how to a long-standing theory in neuroscience: if brain connections called synapses store memories, those synapses should last as long as the memories themselves. It turns out they do, as Mark Schnitzer w

If you find yourself forgetting information you have only your synapses to blame. These connections between neurons are what hold on to memories.