Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

These spindle-shaped brain cells, called von Economo neurons—named for the man who first described them—are found only in human beings, great apes and a handful of other notably gregarious ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have gained greater clarity in the brain regions and neurons that control metabolism, body temperature and energy use. Featured in the February ...

So it seemed a no-brainer for everyone that there shouldn’t be grandmother neurons in any brain”. And yet, the no-brainer is seemingly wrong about the brain. As it turns out, grandmother ...