Despite rapid advances in basic neuroscience, a significant gap remains between fundamental cellular discoveries and their translation into effective ...

Modern day science tends to be highly interdisciplinary. It increasingly requires different technical topics, skills, and expertise to come together to solve complex and challenging problems and ...

Brains are the most complex systems in the universe, but their basic building blocks are surprisingly simple — the complexity arises from billions of neurons, axons and synapses working together.

Research collaboration: Tufts - AstraZeneca Lab for Basic and Translational Neuroscience is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating partner institutions.

Neuroscience emerged as a defined discipline more than half a century ago, enthralling scientists to study the most enigmatic organ: the brain. Researchers explored animal models and probed the ...

Neuroscience is a vast field of study containing a range of narrower subfields. Each involves a spotlight on the brain and other parts of the nervous system, connecting them to one or more zones of ...

Learn more about Xue-Xin Wei's decision to join UT Austin's Department of Neuroscience as an assistant professor and his contributions to the field. Image by Vivian Abagiu. Xue-Xin Wei, a ...