An analysis of almost 50,000 brain scans 1 has revealed five distinct patterns of brain atrophy associated with ageing and neurodegenerative disease. The analysis has also linked the patterns to ...

This work, part of the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative, is the culmination of five years of research. “It's not just an atlas,” says Ed Lein, a neuroscientist at the Allen ...

1. Stress is a natural part of life. Unfortunately, many people don’t know how to deal with it or appreciate the toll it can take. In “The Stress-Proof Brain," Melanie Greenberg, a clinical ...

which her team calculated to equate to between 2.5 and 6.5 years of aging. “Quite a big thing in terms of the age of the brain. And we think that’s really important because a lower total brain ...

See all Abstractions blog Studies by Whittington and others hint that transformers can greatly improve the ability of neural network models to mimic the sorts of computations carried out by grid cells ...

Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses ... these different senses activate different parts of the brain, a new study indicates that multiple senses ...

It begins to shrink, and tiny fibres in the brain's white matter that help different parts communicate are damaged ... Researchers identified five "high-risk clinical factors" clinical factors ...

a part of the brain buried deep towards the bottom of the organ) as the likely culprit. That was unexpected, says Dr Bloch, for the LH is best known for being involved with hunger, thirst and ...

We’re looking at one tiny part … of a mouse’s brain and the beauty and complexity that you can see in these actual neurons ... They estimated that microscopic wiring, if laid out, would measure more ...