A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain – revealing more than 500 million connections in a ...

Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

Northeastern University scientists have discovered that a protein in the human brain could potentially be used to grow new ...

Willits explains that this discovery could have future applications in controlling neural stem cell differentiation in laboratories to accelerate neuron growth, or in developing injectable materials ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

The brain learns due to neurons using multiple mechanisms to store knowledge according to a new study by researchers.

Learning in the brain The human brain is made up of billions ... that can receive thousands of electrical inputs from other cells. Dendrites transmit these inputs to the main body of the neuron, where ...

Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.

Two small clinical trials tested the safety of injecting stem cells into the brains of Parkinson's patients and found no ...