Studying social behavior is crucial for understanding how certain neuromodulatory pathways—like the serotonin pathway, which influences mood and social interactions—are regulated. Kavita Babu, ...

Researchers developed an advanced AI system named YORU that can identify specific animal behaviors with over 90% accuracy across multiple species.

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a point where it could reshape how neurological disorders are treated.

Brain circuits for vision develop without any kind of input from the retina in zebrafish. Animals possess specialized networks of neurons in the brain that receive signals about the outside world from ...

Innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and optogenetics are accelerating discoveries in life sciences, especially in the field of neuroscience. A new ...

Have you ever wondered how the brain is able to see things that are not really there? A hallucination is a perception formed without external stimuli. Last week, neuroscientists at the Stanford ...

A project at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley has employed optogenetics to study the mechanisms of epilepsy, and to indicate possible routes to future treatment. The optics-based ...