R. Douglas Fields

Perineuronal nets, rigid structures that hold certain neurons in place, affect a surprising amount of brain activity, including some associated with chronic pain.

Advances in brain-computer interface technology are impressive, but we’re not close to anything resembling mind control.

New research links serotonin and dopamine not just to addiction and depression, but to the ability to control genes.

Neuroscientists could use brain waves to spur immune cells into action against the disease — but the process is almost too fantastic to believe.

Every exquisite drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the founder of modern neuroscience, is marred by a curious mark. Here is the little-known story behind it.