The process of deciphering information conveyed by neurons in the human brain is known as neural coding. Conventionally, it has been done by considering how neurons change their rate of firing signals ...

ENCODE, an international research project led by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), has produced and analyzed 1649 data sets designed to annotate functional elements of the entire ...

Jerold Chun, MD, PhD, is a professor in the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Sanford Burnham Prebys and the senior and corresponding author of the manuscript. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common ...

For decades, neuroscientists have treated the brain somewhat like a Geiger counter: The rate at which neurons fire is taken as a measure of activity, just as a Geiger counter’s click rate indicates ...

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