A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...

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Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

A spoonful of microplastic in your brain? Shocking new study reveals what’s inside us A study published in Nature Medicine in February suggests that the average human brain may contain ...

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.

In the developing brain, neurons must navigate through complex and often crowded tissue to reach their final ...

In the intervening years, he tried numerous forms of therapy, medication, brain stimulation, and residential treatments — all ...

To make the map, scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston began by using specialized microscopes to record the brain activity in a 1-cubic-millimeter portion of tissue in a lab mouse ...

A new study reveals that chronic stress activates immune cells that travel to the brain, amplify inflammation, and heighten fear responses.

Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...