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New study finds dopamine neurons are more diverse than previously thought, with implications for Parkinson's disease.

Poison frogs are able to withstand a toxin which they use to deter predators, but not without a cost.

New details about how the brain senses orientation might lead to earlier Alzheimer’s detection.

How small genetic changes enabled electric fish to evolve electric organs.

Neuroscientist Lief Fenno of UT Austin partakes in research which advances the understanding of addiction and how it can be treated.

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age.

Scientists have observed for the first time what it looks like in the key memory region of the brain when a mistake is made during a memory trial.

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.

A type of cell once thought to hinder recovery in stroke patients may actually promote the healing process.

The technology can be used to train computers to increase the resolution of low-quality cellular and tissue images acquired on point-scanning systems, such as MRI