News: Neuroscience

In this episode of Point of Discovery, we talk to neuroscientist Laura Colgin about the potential, and possible pitfalls, of new technologies that connect the human brain...

Michael Mauk and his team have made a discovery that adds an important detail to a computer simulation of the part of our brains called...

Boris Zemelman has been influential in the field of optogenetics, which is producing insights that could uncork a flood of new therapies.

The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe, but as scientists are learning, it offers five important clues for understanding its wonders.

Michael Mauk is working on a "digital cerebellum" that mimics the part of the brain that helps us keep from falling. It could help make...

The brains of people experiencing alcohol addiction have different patterns of gene expression than those without addiction. Could this lead to a new kind of...

The Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award is the Board of Regents’ highest honor.

Nace Golding, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin, and his team were surprised to find that serotonin also regulates the sensitivity of...

New research shows how we use a special brain wave frequency when we think about past or future events to play them in fast forward.

Laura Colgin studies the relationship between brain waves and memory during sleep.