Scientists have identified a previously unseen layered organization inside one of the brain’s most important memory hubs.

Pyramidal neurons are a very common type of neuron in the brain. Their cell bodies have a unique pyramidal shape that is the source of their name. They make up about two-thirds of all neurons in the ...

What am I looking at? These images are a series of 1-millimeter-thick slices from front to back through the brain of a mouse, with ChAT neurons (1) in purple and pyramidal neurons (2) in green. The ...

The brain creates internal "maps" to help us navigate and learn from our surroundings, but how these maps form remains a ...