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Granular factoring overcomes the challenge of size and heterogeneity in neurological data science. Brain data is sourced from ...

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

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Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convinced even the most ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

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.

A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt—by burning its own fat. A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits.

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

Evolution has crafted the brain to quickly learn and adapt to an ever-changing world. Detailing its algorithms—the ways it processes information as revealed by its structure and wiring—could inspire ...