One in three Americans is likely to be affected by a brain disorder in their lifetime. Many of these conditions, such as ...

Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.

The ability to quickly recognize sounds, particularly the vocalizations made by other animals, is known to contribute to the ...

As humans and other animals navigate their surroundings and experience different things, their brain creates so-called ...

Most of us have heard of Schrödinger’s eponymous cat, but it is not the only feline in the quantum physics bestiary. Quantum ...

Many brain functions, particularly the senses, are similar across different mammal species.

The measles rash usually doesn’t appear for more than a week after someone has been exposed. Other symptoms are better early ...

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(CNN) — Using a speck of mouse brain matter the size of a grain of sand, scientists have created the first precise, three-dimensional map of a mammal’s brain. The map details the form ...

Scientists have created the most detailed functional brain map to date by tracing connections between 84,000 neurons in a mouse's visual cortex. The research, which involved showing the mouse ...

WASHINGTON — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons ...

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 ...