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

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

John Allman (with colleague Atiya Hakeem at Caltech examining elephant brain specimens) is searching for one of the biological keys to human behavior. Aaron Huey There was little chance of missing ...

“Omega-3 is needed for the brain cell membranes,” Duffy Dillon explains. “It is also required to create myelin sheaths, the coating surrounding nerves which help transmit messages throughout ...

The vagus nerve is a critical part of the nervous system that connects the brain to various organs, including the heart, ...

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 ...

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The study does not prove that having a father with Alzheimer’s results in these brain changes; it only shows an association. The study also showed that female participants may be more at risk of ...