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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with an increased focus on one’s internal experiences along with a reduction in responsiveness to external social surroundings. Now, a new study investigates the dynamics of brain connectivity between brain networks associated with internal experiences, external attention, and switching between internal versus external states.

How migratory animals find their way to the wintering grounds, thousands of kilometers apart from their breeding ground, is a fascinating riddle of nature. Now, neuroscientists have conducted a study to understand how birds know which direction to follow during long-distance flight.

A new UCLA study has found that hippocampal neurons in rats accurately map the position of a moving object even while the rat is stationary. The results challenge the idea that the hippocampus, a region of the brain involved in learning and memory, only encodes a map of space based on movement.

In the field of optogenetics, scientists investigate the activity of neurons in the brain using light. A team has developed a new method to simultaneously conduct laminar recordings, multifiber stimulations, 3D optogenetic stimulation, connectivity inference, and behavioral quantification on brains.

The tics associated with Tourette's syndrome seem chaotic but may have a fractal pattern. Knowing the pattern of tics could speed up diagnosis of Tourette's.

New research suggests that biochemical analysis of brain tissue could be used for the diagnosis and prognosis of severe traumatic brain injury to improve patient outcomes and save billions in future clinical trials.

Researchers reporting in ACS Omega have developed a portable, artificially intelligent olfactory system, or “e-nose,” that could someday diagnose the disease in a doctor’s office.

Researchers have developed a deep learning framework based on convolutional neural networks to flag clinically relevant abnormalities at the time of imaging in head MRI scans.

Parkinson’s disease may be driven in part by cell stress-related biochemical events that disrupt a key cellular cleanup system, leading to the spread of harmful protein aggregates in the brain, according to a new study from scientists at Scripps Research.

Researchers from SMU (Southern Methodist University) have determined that a gene linked to feeling touch may moonlight as an olfactory gene. That’s the conclusion drawn from studying a very small, transparent worm that shares many similarities with the human nervous system.