Preparation of an entire brain for imaging at the necessary resolution requires a distinct set of skills, as does ...

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses ...

We may never know how close the balance is to its tipping point, or the deed that changes everything. But that uncertainty is ...

Understanding the brain requires tools that can follow neural activity across many scales: from millisecond electrical spikes in individual neurons to brain-wide circuit dynamics that change over ...

"Life is all about being pushed along, isn't it?" For filmmakers, simply being able to do the work they used to do has, at ...

Our cherished memories may be more resilient than previously thought. Long-term memories are stored in synapses, the connections between neurons. These structures sit on tiny protrusions called ...

Researchers have completed a detailed map of every neuron and neural connection in the brain of a male fruit fly, creating ...

A new study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, suggests that slow electrical rhythms traveling along ...

Scientists discovered that human microglia, immune cells that help shape developing brain circuits, can take four to eight years to mature instead of just weeks as they do in mice. The unusually slow ...

Scientists have produced the first full scale wiring map of a male adult animal’s brain and nerve cord, enabling ...

Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place within it ...

Everything you eat passes one checkpoint before it enters your body: taste. In a fraction of a second, it decides what gets ...