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

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For ...

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.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a ...

The insurers, which are paid by state and federal governments to cover low-income Medicaid recipients, collected at least $4.3 billion over three years for patients who were enrolled—and paid ...

Mapping the density, molecular features and energy-transformation capacity of cell organelles called mitochondria in the brain reveals region- and cell-type-specific variability that tracks with ...

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

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The surgery, assisted by a neurosurgical robot, placed a thin, flexible electrode with 128 channels on the dura mater, the outermost layer of the three membranes that protect the brain and spinal ...

Having a chip in your brain that can translate your thoughts into computer commands may sound like science fiction - but it is a reality for Noland Arbaugh. In January 2024 - eight years after he ...

High-resolution MRI scans were used to measure the size and shape of different parts of the brain, including the cerebral cortex (the outer layer of the brain responsible for thinking, memory, ...