A groundbreaking study reveals how neurons sense and transmit mechanical forces across their membranes—a key to understanding touch, movement, and development.

How do embryos develop? Why does the cortex of the mammalian brain fold? How do we feel touch at our fingertips? These and other fundamental ...

Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn and the University of Bonn are reconstructing neural networks in the laboratory and investigating new ...

Parkinson’s disease steals ease and movement by striking a narrow band of midbrain neurons. If you study or cover ...

In the lingo of the field, dopamine-producing cells are measuring a reward prediction error — the difference between the ...

How do embryos develop? Why does the cortex of the mammalian brain fold? How do we feel touch at our fingertips? These and other fundamental biological questions remain unsolved. Yet, scientists know ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. The progressive loss of neuronal structure and function in disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...

How do the circuits of the human brain work—and what happens when they are disrupted? To investigate these questions, researchers at the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the ...

Scientists have been aware of the mosquito’s ability to detect our carbon dioxide expirations but the intricate underlying ...

The Marble model can generate 3D worlds, a major step toward what the AI leader calls ‘spatial intelligence.’ ...

The authors used a Bayesian modeling framework to fit behavior and serotonin neuron activity to reward history across multiple timescales. A key goal was to distinguish value coding from other ...

This study offers a valuable advance for neuroscience by extending a visualization tool that enables intuitive assessment of how dendritic and synaptic currents shape the output of neurons. The ...