Esther Kuehn works for the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Tübingen. She receives funding from the European Research Council ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

There’s no part of our body so tethered to our sense of self as our brains. From our brain wiring and structure come our thoughts, our beliefs, our likes and dislikes, and our actions. Even though we ...

As people drift into sleep, their brains do not shut down all at once. Instead, different brain regions change their activity and energy use at different times and in distinct ways. A new study ...

Peter Coppola does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The parts of ...

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial neuron capable of mimicking different parts of the brain. Subscribe to our ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

A subset of more than 1,000 neurons, representing just a snapshot of the complexity mapped within a cubic millimeter of mouse brain tissue Allen Institute In 1979, biologist Francis Crick claimed it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...