This video lets you peek inside the human brain, highlighting the neuronal fibers that enable communication across the brain. This communication is vital to all brain functions, ... and fibers sending ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex.

A massive suite of papers offers a high-res view of the human and non-human primate brain. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive ...

The robots have inspected more than 10 million human brain cells so far, Dr. Lein estimated. Image Bottom row: Drawings of neurons known as double bouquet cells, isolated from tissue biopsies ...

A wide-reaching look at the cells that build the brain, detailed in 21 studies, showcases the brain’s cellular diversity and clues about how it works.

We’re closer than ever to mapping the entire brain to the microscopic level. Hundreds of neuroscientists across the world recently characterized more than 3,000 human brain cell types as part of ...

If you are willing to lie very still in a giant metal tube for 16 hours and let magnets blast your brain as you listen, rapt, to hit podcasts, a computer just might be able to read your mind. Or ...

A team of neuroscientists and engineers, aided by machine learning tools, have charted a cubic millimeter volume of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, tracing every neuron, synapse, blood ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular “traffic cops” known ...

A fragment of human brain, mapped in exquisite detail Date: May 9, 2024 Source: Harvard University Summary: Researchers have created the largest synaptic-resolution, 3D reconstruction of a piece ...

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