Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. orange neuron illustration Super-resolution microscopes have revealed a whole new type of connection between neurons in mouse and ...

The brain’s rules seem simple: Fire together, wire together. When groups of neurons activate, they become interconnected. This networking is how we learn, reason, form memories, and adapt to our world ...

Specific neurons in the motor cortex of the brain are linked to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal ...

Researchers create the first high-resolution molecular atlas of the fruit fly brain, revealing how lineage and birth order define neuronal identity.

A major neuroscience breakthrough has been achieved with the help of an artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning algorithm. In a study published this month in Cell, a multinational team of ...

Aging is known to have profound effects on the human brain, prompting changes in the composition of cells and the expression of genes, while also altering aspects of the interaction between genes and ...

New research from the University of Wyoming reveals that the brain cells that control hunger may be far more adaptable during ...

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

A large-scale atlas of mouse brain cells has revealed that aging does not affect all brain cell types equally. Some cell populations show dramatic shifts in gene activity between youth and old age, ...