Study demonstrated that the Homer1 gene improves focus by reducing “noise” in the prefrontal cortex, with implications for studying attention disorders.

Attention disorders such as ADHD involve a breakdown in our ability to separate signal from noise. The brain is constantly ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...

Working in a mouse model, UC Davis researchers are able to distinguish brain cells activated by a psychedelic drug. This image shows the prefrontal cortex of a mouse injected with scFLARE2 (purple) ...

A U.S. research team has confirmed in a mouse study that suppressing a specific gene in the brain can boost attention. This ...

Depression is a debilitating mental health disorder that remains a substantial global health challenge. Despite the availability of various antidepressants, treatment outcomes often face limited ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...