A team of neurologists, bioengineers and radiologists has found that two neurons in the human brain that code for dopamine ...
Brain-Computer Interfaces fascinate the sci-fi and medical communities in equal measure. Here's how close the transformative ...
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." ...
With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...
"A central goal of neuroscience is to develop an understanding of the brain that ultimately describes the mechanistic basis of human cognition and behavior," said Jeremy Herskowitz, Ph.D ...
(Rujirat Boonyong/Getty Images) "These results are the first to report simultaneous brain-wide changes in human white matter microstructure and cortical thickness coinciding with menstrual ...
Beneath the human brain's bulging cerebral cortex, smaller structures toil in relative obscurity. Subcortical areas, also known as the 'deep brain,' play key roles in functions like attention, emotion ...
So, there are a lot of unknowns (no doubt fueling partisan bickering), but we do know an incredible amount about the brain and how it develops (and, shall we say, unravels) throughout life.
BURLINGTON — At the start of October, scientists completed accurately mapping the entire brain of a fruit fly, along with releasing stunning, multi-colored graphics of its neural networks. This leap ...
A human brain on a chip sounds like something from a science fiction film, a gadget powering its cyborg villain. But chemical and biological engineer Dr. Raquel Rodrigues at the International ...
For many years, studies of ASD have revolved around modeling the disorder in mice or studying isolated human brain cells. Neither is a perfect mimic for the complexity of an interconnected human ...