Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing PhD students and early-career researchers to navigate an uncertain future. After widespread government layoffs, scientists worry ...

Initial affective responses—broadly good or bad feelings about a stimulus—have been associated with activity in evolutionarily conserved subcortical and cortical circuits including the nucleus ...

View Dr. Mingshan Xue's bio for details on his interests in the area of cortical circuit function and development in health and disease, gene therapy for neurodevelopmental disorders. In the mammalian ...

Oxford researchers use oil-wall chambers to grow human neurons and study brain circuits. Read more about this breakthrou ...

Recurrent spiking networks that process input stimuli with optimal efficiency have key emerging properties that are similar to those of biological neural networks.

and studying the roles of conceptual knowledge and learning in pain perception and avoidance behavior. A fourth line of work investigates the cortical-subcortical circuits involved in social ...

Brain circuits are known to gradually form and develop ... During this stage, the initial organization of cortical networks is established via internal (i.e., endogenous) mechanisms.

However, they were able to identify circuit-specific defects in the Syngap1 mouse model they used, which were specific to the cortical thalamic touch network. "We found that there was pervasive ...