Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental condition, is often associated with difficulties in social communication ...

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, consciousness and even what it means to be human ...

Neural explorers The physical size of the brain fragment may be teeny, but the level of detail means the data captured by the mapping effort is massive.

Neurospirituality crosses multiple disciplines to study how and why the human brain has a sense of the divine. Evidence is ...

Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists, in collaboration with international researchers, has achieved a breakthrough in ...

Far from a full brain map, this particular effort involved only a cubic millimeter of the human temporal cortex, containing 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million synapses.

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and every synaptic connection in an adult fruit fly's brain, building a ...

It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau - a protein known ...

Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of the human brain.

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not engaged in physical activities, such as relaxing, resting or ...