"America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain," The Economist warns. As soon as the Department of Homeland Security announced Harvard University would no longer be allowed to ...

Although recording spikes has proved invaluable for monitoring the activity of individual neurons deep in the brain, until now the method has been ‘blind’ to the type of neuron being recorded – making ...

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Every week, Harvard ... a major brain chemical that excites neurons. This finding aligns with previous observations that neuronal excitation stimulates glioma growth and that neuron–glioma ...

The recurring nature of gliomas, a prevalent form of brain cancer including the formidable glioblastoma, has long confounded the medical community, but recent insights from Harvard Medical School ...

Despite being advanced, building a connectome, comprehensive brain map is challenging as it is a highly intricate and time-consuming process. For instance, a single mouse neuron can take up to 20 ...

Imagine gazing at the intricate yet beautiful map of an entire city, but the city is in fact a brain. Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it? Well, scientists have now made this a reality. Experts have ...

Scientists have recently completed the most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document of every neuron and every connection in the brain of an adult fruit fly. The research ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain ...

According to Dr. Uma Naidoo, a Harvard brain expert, certain common behaviors can be incredibly destructive to brain health ...