Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, ...

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious network of brain connections that is linked to ... Brigham and Women's Hospital's Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics in Boston and first author of a ...

USC researchers developed genetically engineered tools that can selectively and reversibly dismantle excitatory or inhibitory synapses. This method allows scientists to break and restore specific ...

New research on mice pinpoints a neural circuit that's helping ... neurons in a region of the brain known as the rostral anterior cingulate cortex and its connections to three other areas.

This is due to the way the compound allows new brain connections, according to the ... usually their brain is stuck in a circuit that they can’t get out of, and psychedelics break that cycle ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information ... the amygdala. The newfound connections to the EC may serve as a crossroads. Other results of the study map connections between ...

“They’re certainly not on-off switches for the entire circuit,” Reid said ... diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of ...

Beyond the physical connections of these brain areas ... They also used a technique called optogenetics to turn parts of this brain circuit on or off in different emotional and behavioral contexts ...

Tracing the neural anatomy of tongue and hand control to pinpoint where a short circuit might ... a close relation between brain regions related to speech production and those controlling hand ...

The scientists looked for connections the brain might have with ... "Similar to a thermostat, this newfound brain circuit helps increase or decrease inflammatory responses to keep the body ...