From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

The Victorian paleontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area termed the Hippocampus minor. He claimed that made it unique in the animal ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...

A new brain imaging study from the ELTE NAP Canine Brain Research group has revealed that age and brain shape affect how ...

That’s partly because most scientists who physically get right inside skulls to study the brains inside them do so with the brains of non-human animals, so most brain research we hear about ...

and which the researchers believe will hold true across animal species including humans, is newly published in Nature. "Looking at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the ...

Two specific genes that evolve exclusively in humans jointly influence ... In addition to animal experiments with mice, alternative methods such as chimpanzee brain organoids were also used.

In the course of evolution, this interplay has led to the human brain being unique in ... In addition to animal experiments with mice, alternative methods such as chimpanzee brain organoids were also ...

The parakeets commonly kept as pets could offer fresh clues about vocal learning and potential treatments for speech disorders ...

and we can makes predictions about how the human brain might work." "We are interested in the idea that humans and other animals may know things about the world, things that they choose not to show," ...