From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

Scientists have created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, mapping every cell and synapse in a ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

Conditions like myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and more recently, long COVID, are the sources of significant confusion and contention among researchers, clinicians ...

Brain zaps are brief episodes that feel like electrical or buzzing sensations in the head, which may be perceived as coming from the brain. These episodes are not dangerous. They have been given the ...

Instead, the race begins, the fans cheer, and the blast is forgotten. To not react negatively to a starter pistol, the brain has to recognize the blast as harmless and then shut down any fearful ...

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In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review of research in this domain, scholars illuminate the profound impacts of these adverse childhood experiences on brain development and introduce new paths ...

We’ve seen how effective deep brain stimulation can be for neurological disorders from Parkinson’s to OCD to depression. We want to see if it can also transform the lives of people with intractable ...