For simplicity some connections have been omitted from this diagram ... of spiking activity of single neurons, the term “oscillation” is used to describe periodic fluctuations in the instantaneous ...

Deep brain stimulation ... it changes baseline firing rates and disrupts normal and abnormal task-related patterns of activity in postsynaptic neurons. Human studies of STN stimulation have ...

Specific protein receptors in the brain play a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, making them targets for many disorders. Researchers have now constructed a detailed structural ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

The research team found that these neurons regulate key aspects of the brain-heart-gut axis ... the team discovered that simultaneous, recurrent firing of these neurons in mice produces a torpor ...

In a recent study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers identified distinct neuronal populations in the hippocampus (HPC) responsive to sugars or fats. Survival depends upon sufficient food ...

Distinct hippocampal neurons influence food preferences and ... dense diets can increase an individual’s obesity risk. Brain reactivity to food cues could be an important predictor of body ...

Widely distributed in the brain, its general role is to activate the firing of neurons; it’s called an excitatory neurotransmitter. Glutamate helps mediate the rewarding effects of drugs of ...

“In those contexts,” Ruetz says, “there is a lot of activity, thousands or even tens of thousands of newborn neurons helping to repair those damaged sites.” Or at least they do when the brain damage ...

Hence, researchers often simulate the brain as a network of coupled neural masses, each described by a mean-field model. These models capture the essential features of neuronal populations while ...

Neurons communicate and transmit information predominantly through spikes. Given that experimentally observed neural spike trains in a variety of brain areas can be highly ... We then show that burst ...