The creaking of an opening gate followed by a dog attack can disturb otherwise pleasant evening walks. The sound of...

Just as members of an orchestra need a conductor to stay on tempo, neurons in the brain need well-timed waves...

Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have discovered that the benefits of stimulating the brain with direct...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Japan have developed a way to obtain super-resolution 3-D images...

Researchers at the RIKEN Evolutionary Morphology laboratory and other institutions in Japan have shown that complex divisions in the vertebrate...

Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have discovered how to reverse the abnormal axonal development characteristic of...

Scientists from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute have shown that a mouse strain with a mutation that leads to dysfunction...

Observing one person threatening another is a commonplace event. Now, in research published in eLife, scientists have used large-scale neural...

For more than a hundred years, people have known that dendritic arbors--the projections that neurons use to receive information from...

Healing spinal cord damage is an incredibly difficult problem because neurons have to be reconnected in a precise fashion, and...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self-organize...

Everyday events are easy to forget, but unpleasant ones can remain engraved in the brain. A new study published in...

Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, in collaboration with Juntendo University and the Japan Science and Technology...

In a collaboration between RIKEN's Brain Science Institute and Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan, scientists combined cutting edge...

To answer the seemingly simple question "Have I been here before?" we must use our memories of previous experiences to...