Is too much activity bad for the brain? Stimulated neurons secrete Aβ, and the most metabolically active areas of the brain succumb first to Alzheimer’s pathology. These findings have led to the idea ...

Mice are always in motion; sweeping their whiskers, sniffing their environment, and grooming themselves. So too are neurons in the brain, even in the absence of external sensory stimuli or a ...

As winter descends upon us, so does the increased likelihood of finding unwelcome houseguests scurrying across our floors—the house mouse, Mus musculus (scientific). While these tiny rodents may be a ...

Mouse activity and physiology varies through the day, but researchers have learned to control for it. Now a seasonal oscillation could make mouse experiments harder to reproduce. Life has its rhythms, ...

Researchers have paired a deep learning model with experimental data to 'decode' mouse neural activity. Using the method, they can accurately determine where a mouse is located within an open ...