Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating ...

The temporal lobe—a key area of our brain responsible for our memory and communication—could also reveal hidden clues about ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

Researchers created the most detailed map of the brain's functional networks using data from people watching movies, including "Inception," "Home Alone" and "Erin Brokovich." ...

In the new study, the team wanted to investigate whether screening movies during fMRI scanning could give any insight into how the brain’s functional networks respond to a series of complex audio and ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

"It's the first detailed map of the human brain across gestation," Emily Jacobs, study author and neuroscientist, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, says. "We've never witnessed the ...

Therefore, there must be zero of them.’” In recent years, research started to uncover how the human brain represents numbers, but no one examined how it handles zero. Now two independent studies, led ...

"This case series provides evidence of [microplastics] found in the human olfactory bulb, suggesting a potential pathway for ...