Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

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A new AI tool builds sophisticated map of mouse brains. It is a detailed view of the brain like never seen before. In a significant technological leap, University of Florida researchers have created a ...

Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily bodily rhythms, including sleep and metabolic disorders ...

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In contrast, brain cells in the cortex—the part of the brain that controls movement ... California–San Francisco have used a new brain-mapping technique to identify memory-related brain ...

Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition, and other disciplines, to map the brain ... Understand the Mind and Brain Just as ...

At some point in your life, you must've experienced a lightbulb moment when an amazing idea just popped into your head out of nowhere. But what is your brain doing during these brief periods of ...

Using an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have created a four-dimensional brain map that reveals ... could be a part of a protective ...