In 1894, Santiago Ramón y Cajal stated that the “cerebral cortex is similar to a garden filled with innumerable trees, the pyramidal cells, which can multiply their branches thanks to ...

The number of nerve cells in the human brain sounds impressive: 100 billion. And it is. But neurons may make up as little as 15 percent of cells in the brain. The other cells are called glial ...

The human brain is teeming with diversity. By plucking out delicate, live tissue during neurosurgery and then studying the resident cells, researchers have revealed a partial cast of neural ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the father of modern neuroscience. He was also an extraordinary artist. On Jan. 28, his artworks will be shown in an American museum for the first time.

IT HAS been described as a “monstrous, beautiful mess”, a “tangled web” and a “dense canopy of tropical branches”. But in reality, it is nothing of the sort. The human brain is a ...