For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

Your eyes might be the window to your future brain health, and what researchers are discovering could change how we detect Alzheimer’s disease forever. Long before memory problems become noticeable, ...

A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region. Previous research has ...

It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision ...

The brain and eyes share a complex connection through the optic nerve, which is a bundle of nerve fibres that sends electrical signals from light-sensitive cells in the retina to the visual cortex in ...

A European research project has developed MV mimicking the cooperation of the eye and nervous system, implemented as Edge-computing circuits.

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

A snail may hold the key to restoring vision for people with some eye diseases. Golden apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) are freshwater snails from South America. Alice Accorsi became familiar with ...