Neuroscience made simpler.
The brain, explained — reference entries and stories, written and reviewed by people who study it.
Hubel's Nobel lecture describes the 1958 accident in a Wilmer Institute basement that revealed cortical cells tuned to the angle of a line.
Twelve short lessons that start where you do — with what you see, feel, remember and forget — and show you the brain behind it. No background needed.
Explore the structures of the brain, one entry at a time.
Most of what we “know” about Phineas Gage was written after he died. The real story says more about how people recover from brain injuries.
Glial Cells
For much of the history of neuroscience, glial cells were treated like…
Sodium-Potassium Pump
The sodium-potassium pump (also known as the Na+/K+ pump or Na+/K+-ATPase) is…
A human brain organoid wired to a chip improved at telling eight male speakers apart from Japanese vowel sounds, from about 51 to 78…
In 17 volunteers, the size of the brain's response to each heartbeat before a faint grating appeared predicted whether they reported seeing it.
