28 June 2023
By looking at electrical signals octopuses produce in their brain while asleep and awake, researchers have gathered some of the best evidence yet that the cephalopods dream
30 March 2023
The thalamus is the brain's relay station for sensory information, but a study in mice has found it may also play a role in memory processing
2 December 2022
A complete map of the neurons inside the brain of a fruit fly larva is the largest example of a whole-brain "connectome", and is a stepping stone to describing the brains of more complex animals, including mice and humans
12 October 2022
Researchers propose that rats with human neurons derived from stem cells implanted into their brains could be used to test new psychiatric drugs
11 April 2022
The ability to sense the internal state of the body, known as interoception, may be linked to our mental health, and macaques appear to have similar capabilities to us
1 April 2022
Corvids such as rooks and crows seem to have a unusually high number of interneurons, brain cells involved in processing information
3 July 2019
A complete map of all the neurons and their connections in both sexes of an animal – a tiny worm – has been described for the first time
20 September 2018
Octopuses respond to ecstasy in the same way as we do, suggesting the basis for social behaviour evolved more than 500 million years ago
7 June 2018
Northern fur seals mostly sleep with half their brain while they’re at sea, but sleep with all their brain while on land – unlike any other animal studied
30 May 2018
Walter Pitts would have become one of the most famous names in computer science - if it hadn’t been for the frogs
