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 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 ...

From the evidence of the 80 in “Beautiful Brain,” his eye was more than unbiased. It saw the brain’s deepest secrets with a clarity it would take technology years to catch up to.

Rebecca Kamen's sculptures appear as delicate as the brain itself. Thin, green branches stretch from a colorful mass of vein-like filaments. The branches, made from pieces of translucent mylar and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brain fog can happen when the pandemic brings both stress and monotony, explains Michael Yassa, director of UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. “With what we call brain fog … ...