Instead, he found a regular criss-cross pattern like the ... to be an incomplete and imperfect representation of the fabulously complex wiring of the human brain.” But Wedeen isn’t claiming ...

It is based on the transmission of ultrasonic plane waves into the brain tissue. After data processing, the echoes returned by the structures crossed by these waves can provide images with ...

For example, when we cross our arms ... leads us to wonder if the brain deliberately dials down the most active orientation functions—the external representation—when we lie down, possibly as a way to ...

creating a high-dimensional representation of texture in the brain. Our hands and fingertips are amazingly sensitive to texture. We can easily distinguish coarse sandpaper from smooth glass ...

The biggest change came in areas of the brain responsible for hand representation. Generally, when we use tools our brain doesn’t alter its biological representation of a hand. So to use a ...

A paper published Monday in Nature Medicine found that the tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and into human brains, and the amount of microplastics in the brain appears ...

It is based on the transmission of ultrasonic plane waves into the brain tissue. After data processing, the echoes returned by the structures crossed by these waves can provide images with unequalled ...