A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section of a mammalian brain. This feat, part of the MICrONS Project, rivals the ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement that ...

The way neurons inside the human brain function and communicate is being used as a roadmap for creating new artificial systems. But more strikingly, scientists now are trying to merge human ...

To relate complex human brain dynamics to mitochondria, the spatial distribution of diverse, energy-transforming mitochondria must be mapped across the brain, which is a considerable technical ...

In the course of evolution, this interplay has led to the human brain being unique in its size and complexity. The newly gained insights not only provide a deeper understanding of the evolutionary ...

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses. Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve ...

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When the human brain is starved of energy, it may start to 'eat' its own fatty tissue for fuel, according to a pilot study on the brains of marathon runners. The findings hint at a whole new form of ...

“We discovered that there was a representation of vocal sounds in the part of the brain analogous to a key speech production center in humans. This is the first non-human species in which such a vocal ...

Evidence is mounting that something exactly like this has been happening to the human intellect over the past decade or so. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to ...